BIB_ID
333544
Accession number
MA 497.52
Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.), bound ; 5.7 cm
Notes
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.
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."
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."
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.
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.
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