Record ID:
301686
Accession number:
MA 347.16
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, probably in 1903.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes:
Endorsed.
Year is from Sherburn's edition of Pope's letters.
Part of a collection of autograph letters, primarily from Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and manuscript poems. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 347 for details.
Summary:
Advising her to buy stock in the South Sea Company: "I was made acquainted late last night, that I might depend upon it as a certain gain, to Buy the South Sea-Stock at the present price, which will certainly rise in some weeks, or less. I can be as sure of this, as the nature of any such thing will allow, from the first & best hands."
Provenance:
The Earl of Harrowby; sale (London, Sotheby, June 18-20, 1903); purchased by Quaritch; probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan in 1903.
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