BIB_ID
439874
Accession number
MA 563.1-24
Credit line
Purchased, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 50 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
High reserve.
Note on front flyleaf of binding: "This is one of 5 volumes, purchased by Mr. Morgan in 1909, containing autograph letters and manuscripts of English poets and essayists of the 18th century. They have been rearranged (1922) in order to bring together all the material of each writer. Letter etc. have been added from other volumes in the Library."
Note on front flyleaf of binding: "This is one of 5 volumes, purchased by Mr. Morgan in 1909, containing autograph letters and manuscripts of English poets and essayists of the 18th century. They have been rearranged (1922) in order to bring together all the material of each writer. Letter etc. have been added from other volumes in the Library."
Provenance
Purchased from F. T. Sabin, 1909.
Summary
A collection of letters and documents, primarily by Jonathan Swift. Collection includes groups of letters to the bookseller Benjamin Motte, including a letter in the hand of John Gay in which Swift offers the manuscript of Gulliver's Travels to Motte, and letters to his friend Charles Ford. Other correspondents include John Arbuthnot, Esther Johnson, and William Flower, Baron Castle Durrow. The collection also includes portraits of Swift, Arbuthnot, Johnson, and Esther Vanhomrigh.
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