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Sonnet to Wm. Cowper Esq. : on hearing that our names had been idly mention'd in a newspaper as competition in a life of Milton : manuscript.

BIB_ID
232703
Accession number
MA 5042.5
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1792 February?.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in honor of Paul Mellon, 1999.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.8 x 18.8 cm
Notes
There is neither a place nor a date of writing on the document. In The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper (volume IV, page 28, note 1), King and Ryskamp state that this manuscript was sent with William Hayley's letter to Cowper dated 1792 February 7.
Possibly in the hand of Thomas A. Hayley, William Hayley's son.
Contains a pencil sketch on the verso.
Part of a collection of six letters and poems related to William Cowper, written between 1786 and 1792. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 5042.1-6).
Provenance
Charles Ryskamp.
Summary
A sonnet beginning "Cowper delight of all who justly prize."