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Jonathan Swift Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I can make no wishes for either of you, but a good Vo

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Jonathan Swift Autograph Letter Signed -- ''...I can make no wishes for either of you, but a good Vo

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Auction Date:2014 Mar 27 @ 17:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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Jonathan Swift autograph letter signed as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The noted satirist and ''Gulliver's Travels'' author dates his letter 20 April 1732, shortly after he published his own obituary, ''Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.'' He writes: ''My Lord, I return my most humble acknowledgements to your Grace and my Lady Dutchess for your great condescention in inquiring after me at a time when you are so much-taken up in crowds and ceremony. I can make no wishes for either of you, but a good Voyage without sickness or accidents. For as to honor fortune, favor, and the like, I can onely pray for the continuance of them. That I so seldom troubled your Grace, I am sure you will approve, as a matter of Conscience in me, not to disturb your house, which in the business of some months left so few for your own leisure and diversions...Jonath Swift.'' 1pp. on card-style stationery measures 6.25'' x 7.75''. Toning and repaired separation to fold lines, else near fine.