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Creator
Apthorp, Salley
Call number
MssCol 25812
Physical description
.1 linear feet (1 folder)
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May Heaven propitious every bliss convey : manuscript / Salley Apthorp, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
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Manuscripts and Archives Division
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A 16-line manuscript poem preceded by the heading "Written extempore, on Mr. and Mrs. Esdaile's departure from Boston for Great Britain," signed at end "Salley Apthorp," and dated "Sunday Morning 1777." Apthorp, describing herself as a young and "humble Muse," wishes the Esdailes a safe voyage with blessings of peace and health, and laments the loss of her dear friends in the hope that they will meet again. The poem is possibly an early work of the American poet Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846) of Boston, Massachusetts. The text (1 page) is written in ink, with the revision of one word in pencil, on a sheet of laid paper (17 x 15 cm) bearing the watermark "GR."

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Purchased from Swann Galleries, Inc., 2018

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Formerly part of the William Wilson Family Papers

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Title supplied by cataloguer from first line

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Attribution to Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton based on her biographical details

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Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328