Portion of an autograph letter signed : London, to Dr. Benjamin Kennicott, 1754 Aug. 15.
Record ID:
301774
Accession number:
MA 377.2
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.5 x 14.1 cm
Notes:
The beginning of the letter is missing.
In a collection with Richardson's autograph manuscript History of Mrs. Beaumont: Dr. Bartlett to Miss Byron (MA 377.1). Items in the collection are described in individual records.
Summary:
Questioning him about the "men of Exeter" and wishing that the "Oxonians would be good" and "would get by heart some passages of Lord Bolingbroke's Letter to Sir W. Wyndham"; reporting that the "speaker ... has caused [him] to pay for [Kennicott's] books"; thanking him for the preface.
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1909.
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