BIB_ID
366466
Accession number
MA 455.16
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1737 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 14.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Right Honourable the / Earl of Orrery."
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 16."
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. 16."
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 729); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Sending him a "Receit, well witnessed," in order to bequeath a portrait of Lady Orkney to him.
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