BIB_ID
364992
Accession number
MA 86.22
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1789 Jan. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "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.
Some loss of text on p. [3].
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.
Some loss of text on p. [3].
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
Telling him that he "live[s] in a continual state of self-reproach for not writing more punctually"; explaining that translating Homer occupies much of his time; reporting that he is now in the eleventh book of the Odyssey; wishing he could see more of his friends at Chicheley; noting that [Mary] Unwin has been in poor health because she fell on ice and suffered "a terrible contusion just under the hip"; deploring "the loss of a much better King [George III] than we shall presently fin[d again]."
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