BIB_ID
365017
Accession number
MA 86.32
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1791 Sept. 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot / Blithfield near / Litchfield / Staffordshire."
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 postmark and 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 postmark and 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 his financial negotiations with the publisher [Joseph] Johnson; telling him that he has received "much encomium from various quarters" on the publication of his newest book; congratulating Bagot on the birth of his son; mentioning that he is "on the brink of a new literary engagement, ... a magnificent edition of [John] Milton's works."
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