BIB_ID
365002
Accession number
MA 86.26
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1790 Dec. 1.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.5 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
Telling him that he has had "a violent cold"; commenting on how long it is taking for his translation of Homer to be printed; quoting from William Shakespeare's Henry V.
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