BIB_ID
108507
Accession number
MA 3429
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1797 March.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1980.
Description
1 item (12 pages) ; 33 x 20.5 cm
Notes
On the verso of the last leaf: "The above were copied by George Courtenay / for the sole use of his little amiable friend L: Gallini / March 1797." Cowper was friendly with the Throckmorton family, including George Throckmorton, who took the name Courtenay-Throckmorton and married Catharine Stapleton, the subject of two of the poems in this manuscript ("Catharina" and "Catharina : Part the Second"), in 1792.
Three of the poems are dated.
The pages of the manuscript have been loosely bound with a thread.
Three of the poems are dated.
The pages of the manuscript have been loosely bound with a thread.
Provenance
From the Phillipps Collection. Purchased from the dealer H.P. Kraus, 1980 May 7.
Summary
Consisting of a manuscript of nine poems by William Cowper, copied out by George Courtenay-Throckmorton.
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