BIB_ID
365031
Accession number
MA 86.37
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1792 June 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 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
Explaining that he cannot come to visit Bagot because [Mary] Unwin "has been seized ... with a disorder that for several days deprived her entirely of the use of her right side, and made her speech so indistinct as to be almost unintelligible"; noting that he has "suffer'd nearly the same disability in mind on the occasion as she in body" and now spends his time caring for the "poor patient" instead of working on Homer or [John] Milton; sympathizing with him on the loss of an elderly friend.
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