BIB_ID
364928
Accession number
MA 86.14
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1787 Sept. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.5 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.
With trace of a 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.
With trace of 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
Reporting that he is "not well, but better"; noting that he has not been able to return to work on his translation of Homer's Iliad; observing that "in the last year [he] seem[s] to have lived twenty years"; discussing shared acquaintances; informing him that [Mary] Unwin is "tolerably well, and always speaks and thinks of you with affection and respect."
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