BIB_ID
366486
Accession number
MA 455.19
Creator
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Display Date
1738 Nov. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Right Honourable / the Earl of Orrery, at / His House in West-Minster / London."
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 20." and "his illness hindered him from writing to me afterwards."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Docketed.
Endorsed by Lord Orrery: "No. 20." and "his illness hindered him from writing to me afterwards."
Part of a collection that includes 19 letters and 3 documents, described in separate records; see MA 455.1-22 for more details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Sale (Christie's, 21-23 November 1905, lot 732); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
Apologizing for writing a short letter; sending him a letter to deliver to Alexander Pope; reporting that he "continue[s his] Deafness with some Increase"; sending his "most humble service" to Lady Orrery; asking if they "have ... any commands for [him] on this side" [i.e. in Dublin]; asking him to present his respects to Lord and Lady Oxford [Edward Harley and Henrietta Cavendish Harley].
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