BIB_ID
81925
Accession number
MA 9259
Creator
Carter, Elizabeth, 1717-1806.
Display Date
undated [1762 or later].
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 15.2 cm
Notes
With one autograph correction. The neatness of the manuscript in general suggests it may be a fair copy.
In the Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, her biographer Montagu Pennington recounts (on page 282) that she wrote this poem several months after an October 27, 1762 letter to Isabella Sutton that addressed similar subjects.
Inscribed by Sir Egerton Brydges on the verso: "Poem by Mrs Elizabeth Carter in her own writing. Given by the Revd. M. Pennington. 4 June 1806." Brydges appears to have added a note at top of the first page as well, reading "By Mrs. Eliz. Carter, in her own handwriting."
A pencil note in an unknown hand on the verso records the following: "Mr. Pennington had favoured me with an autograph copy of Mrs. Carter's stanzas "To Mrs. Montagu" (see p. 100, 4th ed.) which Mr. Egerton Brydes requested me to exchange with him for this copy, at Denton Court, in Aug. 1806." Notes on the poem itself remarking on differences between the manuscript and the published text appear to be written in the same hand.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 80.
In the Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, her biographer Montagu Pennington recounts (on page 282) that she wrote this poem several months after an October 27, 1762 letter to Isabella Sutton that addressed similar subjects.
Inscribed by Sir Egerton Brydges on the verso: "Poem by Mrs Elizabeth Carter in her own writing. Given by the Revd. M. Pennington. 4 June 1806." Brydges appears to have added a note at top of the first page as well, reading "By Mrs. Eliz. Carter, in her own handwriting."
A pencil note in an unknown hand on the verso records the following: "Mr. Pennington had favoured me with an autograph copy of Mrs. Carter's stanzas "To Mrs. Montagu" (see p. 100, 4th ed.) which Mr. Egerton Brydes requested me to exchange with him for this copy, at Denton Court, in Aug. 1806." Notes on the poem itself remarking on differences between the manuscript and the published text appear to be written in the same hand.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, 1791); PML 9812-9815; volume I, page 80.
Summary
A poem of twelve 4-line stanzas dedicated to Isabella Sutton.
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