Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to the Earl of Orrery, [1740] Dec. 29.

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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to the Earl of Orrery, [1740] Dec. 29.

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Indicating that he received favorable word about his entire family's health today while at Bath; describing a narrative he has written about the whole affair that he hopes to convince booksellers to publish along with a few of Swift's and Orrery's letters, in hopes of passively suggesting the dubious nature of the unauthorized edition.

1 item (2 p.), bound ; 23 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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