BIB_ID
366463
Accession number
MA 455.14
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1737 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 14."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 14."
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 727); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Hoping that he will see Lord Orrery before he leaves Dublin; asking him to deliver his papers to Dr. [William] K[ing] at Oxford for publication in England; reminding him to take care of his health, and warning him against being "too temperate in drinking" and not being "strict enough in avoyding to eat what is improper in [his] Disorder."
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