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    • Author/Creator:Orrery, John Boyle, Earl of, 1707-1762.
    • Title:John Boyle Orrery letter, to Messrs. Dodsley, [not before 1754] : manuscript / Corke.
    • Production:[England], [not before 1750]
    • Physical Description:1 item (1 page) ; 20 x 19 cm
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    • Notes:Date based on beginning of partnership of Robert and James Dodsley
      Dodsley spelled "Dodseley" in the address.
      In English.
      Purchased from A.R. Heath, October 2017.
    • Access and use:This material is available for research.
    • Biographical / Historical note:John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork (1707-1762), writer, friend of Swift, Pope and Johnson.
    • Summary:Autographed letter signed by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork, and addressed to the booksellers Messrs. Dodsley on the subject of Horace Walpole. He commences the letter by asking to see any work by "Mr Walpole": "I am told of one that it is very difficult to be procured". He says that he met "Mr Walpole" many years ago at Houghton when he was treated with “honours and civility," but has never had "an opportunity of improving my acquaintance with him" but would "you oblige me to the highest degree in trying to let me have one of his books". Signed "Corke".
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:John Boyle Orrery Letter to Messrs. Dodsley. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
    • Subjects:Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
      R. and J. Dodsley.
      Booksellers and bookselling--England--London.
    • Genre/Form:Correspondence.