BIB_ID
107749
Accession number
MA 86.51
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1789 Nov. 5.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Samuel Rose Esqre. / Percy Street / Rathbone Place / London."
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Summary
Explaining that he is not sending his new work to Rose because he doesn't think it is worth the extra postage; describing the explosion of a bottle of spruce beer in the study; commenting on the poor quality of the spruce beer, and remarking that the servants also do not like it; mentioning that his dog keeps running away: "I could by no means spare my dog, and yet it is not unlikely that I may lose him. He is very portable and would be an acquisition to any stranger"; describing [John] Throckmorton's "handsome present" of Villoison's edition of Homer's Iliad.
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