BIB_ID
365016
Accession number
MA 86.31
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1791 Aug. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23 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
Noting that Bagot's brother Chester told him Bagot was ill and "owed [his] indisposition to certain liberties that [he] had taken with [him]self in the Quackery-way"; hoping that Mrs. Bagot "will lock up [Mr. Bagot's] pill-box"; observing, "I shall never think you safe or be free from fears about you, so long as you have the management of your own disorders in your own hands"; reporting that he was "much obliged" by Lady Bagot's visit; mentioning recent fires in Birmingham.
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