BIB_ID
366471
Accession number
MA 455.15
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1737 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.3 cm
Notes
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 15." and "Preface to the History of the four last years of Q. Ann."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
The letter has a hole in it with some loss of text.
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
The letter has a hole in it with some loss of text.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 728); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Sending him a corrected manuscript and asking him to deliver it to Doctor [William] King; bidding him "Farewell for ever"; reporting that he "can hear something better, but [his] H[ead is] very ill."
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