BIB_ID
311470
Accession number
MA 428.78
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1798-1820].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Watermark: 1798.
Watermark: 1798.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Transcriptions of "To my sister on her refusing to shew me a poem written on the following lines: Grace was in all her steps Heaven in here Eye / In all her Gestures dignity & love" (8 ll., first line: "Daughter of Eve & Sister mine"); "On the shortness of Human Life" (16 ll., first line: "Suns that set & moons that wane"); and "Inscription for the Portrait of Cowper" (4 ll., first line: "Behold the Bard who captivates all Hearts").
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