BIB_ID
364964
Accession number
MA 86.17
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1788 Mar. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.1 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 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 seal.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Remarking how cold the weather has been this spring; commenting on Lord Bagot's illness; asking him about a pamphlet "said to have been written by Mr. [William] Wilberforce"; reporting that he has "given the last revisal to as much of [his] Translation [of Homer's Iliad] as was ready for it"; noting that he is "much more familiar with Homer than at any time heretofore"; informing him that [Mary] Unwin has "lately been much troubled with a nervous disorder in her side of the spasmodic kind."
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