BIB_ID
364879
Accession number
MA 86.6
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1786 Jan. 23 [i.e. 24].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 28.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot."
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.
The letter is dated "Tuesday Jan. 23, 1786," however Jan. 23 was a Monday in 1786.
With 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.
The letter is dated "Tuesday Jan. 23, 1786," however Jan. 23 was a Monday in 1786.
With seal.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Reporting that he is trying to "push forward these Proposals of [his] as fast as possible"; mentioning Bagot's brother Richard [Howard] and thanking him for subscribing to his forthcoming translation of Homer's Iliad; informing him that "Dr. Matty of the Museum" has read his newest poem, The Task, and "designs ... to give his opinion of it in his next Monthly Review" and to mention that he is working on a translation of Homer; telling him that he sent his Task to [Cyril] Jackson, Dean of Christ Church at Oxford, and is fearful of what Jackson and others will think of his work; sending him "some nonsense verses."
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