Record ID:
364929
Accession number:
MA 86.15
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.5 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot."
Docketed.
With trace of a seal.
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:
Reporting that he and [Mary] Unwin are visiting Chichely and giving details of the friends they have seen there; discussing his work on Homer; mentioning an awkward situation in which Bagot was visited by "an Authoress whose works, though presented to [him] long before, [he] had never read"; telling him that he has been asked to write a poem for "a Bill of Mortality."
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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