BIB_ID
364512
Accession number
MA 86.30
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1791 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot / Blithfield near / Litchfield / Staffordshire."
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Commenting on the printing of his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; mentioning visits from Bagot's brother and other relatives and friends; discussing the study of physiognomy; reporting that he has lately read [John] Milton's Latin poems but will "make [them] the subject of some future letter"; speculating that "it will be ten to one that ... Samuel Johnson gets another slap or two at the hands of your humble servant [Cowper]"; asking Bagot to read Milton and Johnson's comments on Milton and to give his opinion on both.
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