BIB_ID
365000
Accession number
MA 86.24
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1789 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.8 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
Discussing Bagot's recent marriage; mentioning that Bagot's brother injured his legs by a fall in London; reporting that his "verses on the Queen's visit to London" are being printed in the World; commenting on the changes he made to the poem before publishing it; calling himsef "a very tractable sort of poet," and writing, "I beg that when my life shall be written hereafter my Authorship's ductility of temper may not be forgotten."
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