BIB_ID
365022
Accession number
MA 86.36
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1792 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.9 and 7.2 x 11.6 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." Page [4] is on the verso of the address panel.
With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot." Page [4] is on the verso of the address panel.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Commenting on the illness and recovery of Bagot and his children; thanking him for a correction to his translation of Homer's Iliad; noting that he is keeping back the second edition [of his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey] until he has "had opportunity to avail [him]self of the remarks both of friends and strangers"; observing that the reviews of his work have helped him by pointing out mistakes in his translation; discussing his work on [John] Milton; reporting that [Mary] Unwin has been dangerously ill.
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