BIB_ID
107464
Accession number
MA 86.55
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1793 May 21.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
"From Bathurst Collection -- English Authors."
Addressed to "William Hayley Esqr. / Eartham / near / Chichester."
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Addressed to "William Hayley Esqr. / Eartham / near / Chichester."
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Bathurst Collection.
Summary
Discussing his daily schedule; lamenting the onset of old age; questioning Hayley about a book, Man As He Is, reputed to be by him "because it inculcates whig-principles" [actually by Robert Bage] ; mentioning Desmond by Mrs. [Charlotte] Smith, and noting that there is a rumor that she was "bribed to it by the democratic party"; expressing his hope that John Throckmorton is going to return from Venice with Villoison's edition of the Odyssey.
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