Zone d'identification
Cote
Add. MS a/744
Titre
Two items by Richard Porson
Date(s)
- 1787, n.d. (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 folded sheet and 1 single sheet.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1759-1808)
Histoire archivistique
These items were purchased in 2019 from Richard Ford Ltd, dealers in books, printed ephemera, and manuscripts. There is no indication of the intervening provenance of the items.
Both have stubs from mounts attached to them, suggesting their removal from… read more
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Richard Ford Ltd.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
A letter purporting to be from John Villette to Sir Busick Harwood on how to make money from the corpse of an executed man. Actually written by Richard Porson as satire. 'In the handwriting of Professor Porson. Evidently a joke' is annotated in pencil at… read more
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Noms
Dates of creation revision deletion
Description created by I. David in 2025.