BIB_ID
107837
Accession number
MA 3860
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800, translator.
Display Date
Olney, England?, circa 1782.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman in honor of Charles Ryskamp on his tenth anniversary as Director of The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1979.
Description
1 item (18 pages) ; 33.9 x 16.3 cm
Notes
No place or date of writing is given on the manuscript, but Cowley translated poems by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, at the request of William Bull, between July 1782 and August 1783 while he was living in Olney. This appears to be a fair copy.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby sale, London, 1979 March 14, lot 328.
Summary
Consisting of translations from the third volume of the poems of Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon.
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