BIB_ID
364912
Accession number
MA 86.10
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1786 July 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
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 a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is docketed and has a seal.
With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is docketed and has a seal.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Expressing his happiness that Bagot has received his proposals; thanking him "for all [his] labours in [Cowper's] service"; reporting that "a very extraordinary person by the name of Fuseli" is revising his translation of Homer; praising Fuseli's knowledge of Greek and his "exquisite Taste in English poetry"; adding that their "old schoolfellow Colman" will "correct the Press and make any little alterations that he may see expedient"; mentioning that [Alexander] Pope also "had many aids" in his translation of Homer.
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