BIB_ID
364863
Accession number
MA 86.4
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1785 Dec. 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot / Blithfield / Litchfield."
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.
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.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Discussing the publication by subscription of his translation of Homer's Iliad; asking for Bagot's advice about how he should conduct himself with Bagot's "brother Chester" regarding the circulation of his papers; observing that "we do not like to be ask'd for that which the petitioner ought to have known, that we either cannot perform at all, or not without much inconvenience"; explaining that business has kept him from giving "a complete Reading to the Bishop's Sermons."
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