Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
• Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Peckitt, Charles Cecil, -1935, former owner
• Blackmon, Lawrence G, former owner
• Zachs, William, former owner
• Day, Geoffrey, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977637296603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1138739298

Publisher

Origin

Date

1751?

Summary

Letter to Theophilus Garencières, an apothecary in York, from Laurence Sterne describing the condition of his wife Elizabeth following a miscarriage and requesting an opiate for her, the only known evidence of the loss of the Sternes' second child. Dated Friday morning; probably written in May 1751 (Day). Written on a quarto bifolium, with a watermark of a crowned double circle with the motto Pro Patria Eiusque Libertate. Integral address leaf marked "To Mr. Garancieres." Spindle hole in center affecting two words, partially repaired. Minimal remnants of wax seal.

Support

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Cecil Peckitt, Esq., (Goathland, Yorkshire; Curtis).
   
• Offered for sale by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London), catalogue 969 (1977), number 112.
   
• Formerly owned by Lawrence G. Blackmon (1919-2010) in 1988 (IELM).
   
• Formerly owned by William Zachs; gift of Zachs to Geoffrey Day.
   
• Formerly owned by Geoffrey Day.
   
• Presented by Geoffrey Day to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2018.
   

Subjects topical

• Sterne, Laurence,--1713-1768--Correspondence
• Novelists, English--18th century--Correspondence

Genres

• Personal correspondence
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• England
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Laurence Sterne letter to Theophilus Garencières, 1751?