[Notes on Chatterton] : fragment of an autograph manuscript, undated.
Record ID:
333544
Accession number:
MA 497.52
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description:
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 5.7 cm
Notes:
This autograph manuscript is a continuation of MA 497.51 which includes a penciled notation at the top of page 1, most likely in the hand of Belle da Costa Greene, with the title "Notes on Chatterton."
Part of a collection of the correspondence of Horace Walpole to various recipients including Henry Seymour Conway, Benjamin Ibbot and Horace Mann and with a small number of miscellaneous writings and copies of the writings of others. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary:
Being a continuation of a small essay on Thomas Chatterton's forgeries of poems he claimed were written in the fifteenth-century by Thomas Rowley.
Provenance:
Given by Mary Berry to Sir Frankland Lewis; by descent to his daughter-in-law Lady Theresa Lewis; by descent to her son Sir Thomas Villiers Lister; by descent to his wife Lady Lister; acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
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