BIB_ID
364985
Accession number
MA 86.20
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1788 Oct. 14.
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
Wondering why he has not heard from Bagot in such a long time; reporting that he has finished his translation of Homer's Iliad and two books of the Odyssey; noting that he wants to change the title of the Odyssey in his translation since readers know the hero of the poem as Ulysses rather than Odysseus; suggesting "the Ulyssiad"; telling a story about Montesquieu; mentioning [Mary] Unwin.
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