BIB_ID
80052
Accession number
MA 457.23
Creator
Ashe, St. George, 1658?-1718.
Display Date
1707/8 [i.e. 1708] Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 30.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and manuscript poems written by or attributed to Jonathan Swift. Items in the collection are described separately; see MA 457 for more information.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
Possibly in the hand of Bishop Ashe.
The letter is incomplete.
Part of the Fountaine Papers.
Possibly in the hand of Bishop Ashe.
The letter is incomplete.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Horn inside shield over letters "HT".
Provenance
Andrew Fountaine; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
With extensive punning on the name of the Bishop of Waterford if he had been Bishop of Millford, and with additional puns on names of flowers in the writer's garden and members of his household.
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