Record ID:
364994
Accession number:
MA 86.23
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "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:
Congratulating Bagot on his recent marriage; noting, "you will not be said to have made a prudent choice, but may the event prove that you have made a fortunate one"; asking when he will come to visit; sending him a short epithalamium in Latin and telling him to translate it for Mrs. Bagot.
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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