Pièce 744 - Two items by Richard Porson

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

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 fromread 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 atread more

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Dates of creation revision deletion

Description created by I. David in 2025.