Collection of letters from and related to William Cowper : Olney, Weston, London, etc., to Walter Bagot and other recipients, [1750] Mar. 12-1806 Mar. 31.

Collection consists of the following items: forty-three autograph letters signed from William Cowper to Walter Bagot (MA 86.1-40 and MA 86.42-44); a copy of a letter signed from Cowper to Bagot (MA 86.41); an autograph letter signed from Spencer Cowper to Thomas Wright (MA 86.45); autograph letters signed from William Cowper to Joseph Hill (MA 86.46), Lady Austen (MA 86.47), Walter Churchey (MA 86.48), Samuel Rose (MA 86.49-51), Lady Harriet Hesketh (MA 86.52), Rev. Richard Polwhele (MA 86.53), George Romney (MA 86.54), William Hayley (MA 86.55), and Lady Maria Catherine Throckmorton (fragment of a letter, MA 86.56); Cowper's autograph translation of a passage from Horace (MA 86.57); nine autograph letters signed from Bagot to Cowper (MA 87.1-9); autograph letters signed to Bagot from Mary Unwin (MA 87.10), Lady Hesketh (MA 87.12-13), Henry Cowper (MA 87.15), William Hayley (MA 87.16-22), and John Johnson (MA 87.23-28); a manuscript account of Cowper's snuff-box (MA 87.11); an autograph poem by Sir Edmund Cradock-Hartopp (MA 87.14); manuscript copies of poems by Cowper (MA 87.29-32 and MA 87.34); and a manuscript copy of a poem about Cowper by Francis Randolph (MA 87.33). Items within the collection are described in 91 records (MA 86.1-57 and MA 87.1-34); see individual records for more details.