BIB_ID
368845
Accession number
MA 514.12
Creator
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.
Display Date
1742/3 [i.e. 1743] Feb. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 30.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragments of a seal and postmarks to "The Rev'd Dr. Doddri[dge] / att / Northamton."
Signature and docket excised.
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.
Signature and docket excised.
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
Relating a "Paralytic Disorder" which seized him on the day he sent his last letter and saying that he is "confined to my Chamber till this Day;" saying he has been unable to read this "2nd part of the Defence of Christianity;" making suggestions on his "Paraphrase of the Scripture" as it relates to his students; adding that he is glad that Mr. Sedgeley "will make a Minister...I am sorry for it, that we take in any such Students that I fear will not be Usefull, either thro want of parts, or memory, or application, or seriousness."
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