Letter from William Cowper, Weston Underwood, to Samuel Rose, 1792 March 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Referring to Rose's recent visit; thanking him for "dancing after my commissions;" saying that Joseph Johnson has sent him a copy of the "interleaved Milton [King and Ryskamp identify this as Thomas Newton's edition] together with my account. Money of mine has no chance for lying long at a Banker's, and it is expedient you should be inform'd that I have already drawn for the sum specified;" referring to his correspondence with the Lord Chancellor, Edward Thurlow, about whether Rose could dedicate a book to him; saying that he has not had a response from Thurlow and will wait a little longer before writing him again, "especially as the Title page alone can be affected by it, and that is the last thing printed;" mentioning a long letter he wrote that morning to Thomas Park praising his poem: "He has genius and delicate taste ; and if he were not an Engraver might be one of our first hands at poetry;" discussing other demands on his time and saying that he has just received a letter from a stranger asking a literary question and proposing a subject for a poem: "I had need have two heads, like Parnassus itself, to execute all of this sort that has been recommended to me;" concluding "the moment when we must sally to the wilderness being near at hand, I can add no more than Mrs. [Mary] Unwin's love and my own;" asking in a postscript whether Rose remembered that "my answer to the honest Quaker was in your great coat pocket?"