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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Letter : to Jonathan Richardson, [not before 1739 Aug.]

Title: Letter : to Jonathan Richardson, [not before 1739 Aug.]

Discusses the young Samuel Johnson's physical infirmity and literary talent.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612835255 View

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745. Autograph letter signed : to Ralph Palmer, 1731 May 6 and 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : to Ralph Palmer, 1731 May 6 and 7.

Commenting on John Milton and on religious and philosophical matters.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270617461 View

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745. Jonathan Richardson drawings, [ca. 1734-1888].

Title: Jonathan Richardson drawings, [ca. 1734-1888].

Drawings mounted on paper on numbered leaves, including a self-portrait of Richardson (leaf 1), and portraits of John Milton (leaves 2-8), Alexander Pope (9-23), Annibale Carracci (24), more self-portraits (25-29), and portraits of Jonathan Richardson the younger (30-38). Hinged onto the front pastedown is a manuscript note by Samuel Hibbert-Ware concerning both Richardsons. On the verso is a pencil note (by Titus Herbert Hibbert-Ware?) concerning Richardson the elder. On the leaf preceding the first drawing, recto and verso, is a signed note by Titus Herbert Hibbert-Ware concerning the history of the volume. On the verso of the first drawing is a short poem, dated April 12, 1732, in the hand of Richardson the elder. At the back of the volume are two Twickenham Museum circulars concerning the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pope's birth, and three autograph letters to T. Hibbert-Ware: the first from Henry Richard Tedder, dated July 18, 1888, requesting loan of the drawings; the second and third from Edwin Maynard, July 21 and August 8, 1888, acknowledging receipt and announcing the return of the drawings. These are followed by a printed notice of the Pope Museum from the Athenaeum, Aug. 11, 1888. Bound in full late 18th-century crimson straight-grain morocco, panelled in blind and gilt, with contrasting spine label and marbled endpapers.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (50 leaves) ; 23 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64061126 View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Collection of autograph letters and documents signed, 1708-1768 1714-1744.

Title: Collection of autograph letters and documents signed, 1708-1768 1714-1744.

Collection consists of autograph letters from Alexander Pope to William Fortescue (19), Charles Ford (4, two of which were co-written with Thomas Parnell), Benjamin Motte (5), the artist Jonathan Richardson the Elder (3), George Arbuthnot (2), and John Brinsden, as well as an autograph ex libris, an autograph poem ("Receipt to make a soupe by Mr. Pope to Dean Swift"), a receipt signed by Pope, and the original agreement between Pope, Swift and the publisher Benjamin Motte for the publication of their Miscellanies. Collection also contains a letter from John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham to Pope and a letter from William Warburton to an unidentified recipient, as well as a poem formerly attributed to Pope. Letters from Pope are concerned with his health, travels, and publication matters; most are written from unspecified locations, but some were written from Twickenham. Letters and documents in the collection have been described separately in 42 catalog records; see related records for more information.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (42 items), bound ; 35.9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153573 View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Jonathan Richardson, 1725 June 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Jonathan Richardson, 1725 June 10.

Thanking him for a letter; expressing his hearty gladness that Richardson has accepted his invitation to visit and hoping he will thank Pope by reading Homer, who says "that Hospitality is the Glory of Friendship."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p., with address) ; 19.7 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701918319 View

Resta, Sebastiano. Father Resta's remarks on the drawings, [ca. 1716]

Title: Father Resta's remarks on the drawings, [ca. 1716]

Copy by Jonathan Richardson of Sebastiano Resta's (1635-1714) marginal notes to his collection of Italian drawings, acquired chiefly in the 1680s and 1690s. Fourteen volumes of drawings (Liber A-O) (Lansdowne 802), and two volumes comprising an alphbetical list of artists' names and a chronological list of artists and one of unnamed drawings (Lansdowne 803), were purchased ca. 1710 by Lord John Somers and brought to England. The drawings subsequently were dispersed.

ArchivalResource: 0.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84608411 View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Jonathan Richardson, Friday night [1721 or later].

Title: Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Jonathan Richardson, Friday night [1721 or later].

Inviting him and his son to Twickenham.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701924017 View

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745. Jonathan Richardson portraits of Alexander Pope, [ca. 1734-1741].

Title: Jonathan Richardson portraits of Alexander Pope, [ca. 1734-1741].

Pencil and ink portraits of Alexander Pope (two copies of each), from a collection of his drawings held at Cornell. The numbering of the prints corresponds with the numbering of the original drawings in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (16 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64061130 View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letter signed with initials : Twitnam, to Jonathan Richardson the elder, 1742 July 30.

Title: Autograph letter signed with initials : Twitnam, to Jonathan Richardson the elder, 1742 July 30.

Inviting him for the weekend.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270618032 View

Alexander Pope collection, 1713-1855

Title: Alexander Pope collection 1713-1855

Contains letters from Pope to various people, including John Conduitt, Robert Craggs Nugent, and Jonathan Richardson; a holograph draft of Pope's translation of the first 48 lines of Book 8 of Homer's "Iliad"; a holograph inscription for Jonathan Swift's grandfather's tomb (with holograph notes by Swift); and an album (formerly owned by John Murray) that contains material by and about Pope.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 2; Other Storage Formats: oversize; Linear Feet: 1.20

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pope View

Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Autograph letters signed (3) : [n.p.], to Jonathan Richardson the elder, 1725 June 10, [1737] June 17 and n.d.

Title: Autograph letters signed (3) : [n.p.], to Jonathan Richardson the elder, 1725 June 10, [1737] June 17 and n.d.

Inviting Richardson and his son to visit and sending the elder Richardson a Royal Paper edition of his Letters and his son a complete edition of his works "with Large Margins."

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270618008 View