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Pope, Alexander
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Description
- Pope, Alexander
- Autograph letter signed, to Slingsby Bethel
- ink on paper
asking him to “pay in Mr Druimmond the Banker at charingcross the 1 small debt of Interest, to me, Mrs Blount being to go to Bath to morrow for some time”, 1 page, small 4to, integral autograph address leaf, postal marks of the London penny post, remains of seal, n.p., “Wednesday the 14th [October 1741?], splitting at fold, seal tear
Literature
The Correspondence of Alexander Pope, ed. Sherburn (1956), vol. IV, pp.365-66
Catalogue Note
Slingsby Bethel was an old friend both of Pope and of the Blount family. He handled some of the poet's financial affairs especially, as this letter reveals, when Pope's confidante Martha Blount was not in town.