Record ID:
364906
Accession number:
MA 86.9
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.
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