Autograph letter signed : Olney, to Walter Bagot, 1786 May 24.

Record ID: 
364906
Accession number: 
MA 86.9
Author: 
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes: 

With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is 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.

Summary: 

Expressing surprise that Bagot never received his proposals; speculating that "they must by some accident have miscarried," and adding that he will ask Johnson to send them again; telling him that his cousin Lady [Harriet] Hesketh is coming to spend the summer at a vicarage near him; commenting on Bagot's intention to offer him a swan quill.

Provenance: 
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.