Record ID:
333539
Accession number:
MA 497.51
Credit:
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description:
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 19.6 cm
Notes:
This two page fragment continues with an additional fragment in this volume (MA 497.52).
A penciled note at the top of page 1, likely in the hand of Belle da Costa Greene, titles this manuscript "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 small essay on the controversy surrounding the forgeries of fifteenth-century poems by Chatterton and attributed by him to 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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