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Transcript of William Cowper's poem To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa, undated [ca. 1803?]

BIB_ID
311474
Accession number
MA 428.79
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1803?]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Dating based on relationship to Hayley's The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowpwer (1803-1804), wherein an extract from this translation is headed Conclusion.
Headed "Conclusion."
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
A transcript by William Hayley of the last 13 lines of Cowper's To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa (which is a translation of Milton's Mansus).