BIB_ID
365006
Accession number
MA 86.28
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1791 Feb. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.5 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 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
Observing that his translation of Homer has taken up much of his time; commenting on blank verse; writing that [Samuel] Johnson "did not know how to read blank verse"; noting that the printing of his translation of Homer is now up to the second book of the Odyssey.
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