BIB_ID
364976
Accession number
MA 86.18
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1788 Apr. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 24.1 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
Reporting that he asked his old friend Mr. Rowley if he was interested "in the business of [Cowper's] Subscription, and he ... sent for 30 papers"; discussing shared acquaintances; sending him an anti-slavery poem he wrote. The erratum sheet reads: "Instead of Mr. Wilberforce as author of Manners of the Great, read Hannah More."
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