BIB_ID
366461
Accession number
MA 455.13
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1737 Mar. [26]-31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
"Begun four days ago, and sent Mar. 31st, 1737."
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 13."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 13."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 726); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Discussing a shipment of coins that recently arrived in Dublin from England; commenting on his financial issues and asking if he can borrow £1000; reporting that he is "dayly losing ground, both in health and Spirits"; noting that he is "fretting at universall publick Mismanagement"; mentioning various pieces of gossip from England, including a rumor that "[Robert] Walp[ole] and Mr. [William] Pulteney are become friends, and both to be made Lords"; asking when he is going to England so the Earl can carry "a great Load" there for him.
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