BIB_ID
364926
Accession number
MA 86.12
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1786 Nov. 17.
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.
Signature is partially obscured but appears to be initials rather than his full name.
With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is docketed and has a seal.
Signature is partially obscured but appears to be initials rather than his full name.
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
Observing that he thinks "that if [he] had been more stationary, [he] should seem to [him]self to have lived longer"; complaining about his move from Olney to Weston, and noting that "the confusion which attends a transmigration of this kind is infinite, and has a terrible effect in deranging the intellects"; remarking that he has not been able to work on his translation of Homer during the move but hopes to return to it soon; discussing shared acquaintances; wishing that Bagot would visit him.
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