BIB_ID
368815
Accession number
MA 514.8
Creator
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Display Date
1740 Mar. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with postmarks and traces of a seal to "the Reverend / Dr. P. Doddridge / in / Northamton."
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Isaac Watts to Philip Doddridge and others; see main record for MA 514 for more information.
Docketed.
This item is part of a collection of letters and manuscripts of Isaac Watts to Philip Doddridge and others; see main record for MA 514 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson, 1905.
Summary
Discussing certain students; commenting that "we cannot take in any new Student while we are so many hundred pounds in Debt already;" saying he is glad his health is improved; expressing his wish to see him on his next visit to London; encouraging him to continue "Expounding the Scriptures in a different manner" and commenting on two specific texts for which his opinion was requested; discussing, in a postscript a letter from the Bishop of Xafilah [Vicar of Halifax]. .
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