Detail View: Rylands Collection: Letter from Jonathan Swift
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Image Number:
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JRL0910563dc
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Reference Number:
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English MS 659/17
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Letter from Jonathan Swift
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Parent Work Title:
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Swift Papers
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Creator:
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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18th century
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Page/Sheet:
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1
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Image Sequence Number:
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001
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Description:
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Copy by Swift of his letter in their shared artificial language, Latino-Anglicus, to Thomas Sheridan, retrospectively dated by Swift as July 1734, but actually answering a letter from Sheridan dated 16 July 1735.
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Subject:
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Letters
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Category of Material:
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Manuscripts
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Sub-Category:
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Correspondence
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Technique Used:
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Handwriting
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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People Covered:
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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
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Item Height:
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182 mm
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Item Width:
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148 mm
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Piozzi, Hester Lynch, 1741-1821, former owner
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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References:
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I. Ehrenpreis and J.L. Clifford, 'Swiftiana in Rylands English MS. 659', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol. 37 (1954), pp. 368-392
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2009-01-30
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by Heritage Imaging, The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2011-02
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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