BIB_ID
409794
Accession number
MA 4647.10
Creator
Cleland, John, 1709-1789.
Display Date
1758 March 6.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1989.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19.3 x 15.7 cm
Notes
Cleland does not refer to Dickinson by name on the letter, but internal evidence strongly suggests that he is the recipient.
In Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Hal Gladfelder identifies the bookseller mentioned in this letter as Samuel Hooper (see page 193). The British Book Trade Index also places Hooper at the address Cleland gives for him during this time period.
In Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), Hal Gladfelder identifies the bookseller mentioned in this letter as Samuel Hooper (see page 193). The British Book Trade Index also places Hooper at the address Cleland gives for him during this time period.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's, London, December 14, 1989 (lots 11 and 12).
Summary
Asking him to convey the enclosed letter (MA 4647.11) to his mother, offering his condolences on the death of his aunt Margaret Allen; saying that he can be reached at "Mr Hooper, Bookseller at Gay's head near Beaufort Buildings in the Strand."
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