BIB_ID
106739
Accession number
MA 3106
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1783 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Mrs. James H. Ripley, 1976.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22 x 19 cm
Notes
Cowper addresses his correspondent only as "My dear friend," but based on internal evidence, the addressee is likely to have been the Reverend William Bull. See the published correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby sale, 1976 June 22, lot 204.
Summary
Saying that his letter "comes accompanied by a Letter Mrs. [Mary] Unwin received from Mrs. [Susanna] Powley ; she thought it would please you" (this enclosure is no longer with the letter); adding "I send you the petite piece I promised" and including the text of the poem "The Rose;" concluding "The Ladies are in the Greenhouse, and Tea waits -."
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