BIB_ID
107779
Accession number
MA 86.1
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1749 [i.e. 1750] Mar. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Walter Bagot Esqr / at the College in Little Deans Yard / Westminster."
Cowper uses Julian dating; the Gregorian calendar was not accepted in England until 1752.
Docketed.
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 an envelope that reads "The First Letter from William Cowper / to / Walter Bagot. / March 12, / 1749" in an unknown hand.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Written from Grevile Street.
Cowper uses Julian dating; the Gregorian calendar was not accepted in England until 1752.
Docketed.
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 an envelope that reads "The First Letter from William Cowper / to / Walter Bagot. / March 12, / 1749" in an unknown hand.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Written from Grevile Street.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Marveling that two friends are "corresponding by Letter at the Distance of a Mile & a half"; observing that they are both too busy to arrange an in-person meeting; mentioning school friends.
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