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Autograph letter signed : to his cousin, Lieutenant General Cowper, 1793 Sept. 10.

BIB_ID
270237
Accession number
MA 6436
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1793 Sept. 10.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Brooke Russell Astor, 2007.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
With postmark and seal and addressed to "Lieutent General Cowper / Kingston on Thames / Surry [sic]."
Summary
Discussing his possible purchase of the plates for his new edition of Homer. The letter includes a revised version of the poem "The Rose," which Cowper had first written in a letter to William Unwin on June 5, 1783. Reporting on his current activities, and that his work on revising his translation of Homer and editing Milton "conspire to hinder the writing" of his own poetry which he "withold[s] from the press partly because they must have a little retouching." Also reporting that "The time that I pass with Homer is pleasantly spent though laboriously. It is pleasant to see the effects of polishing and repolishing. I have deliver'd the work from thousands of blemishes, which after poring on it for 6 or 7 years, I could not discern to be such; and perhaps, had I not other things to call me from it, could yet proceed in the improvement of it many years."
Housed in
Slipcase of red morocco over red cloth (24.8 cm)