BIB_ID
365034
Accession number
MA 86.38
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1792 June 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.9 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
Informing him that Mary Unwin is slowly recovering from her stroke; noting that she is able to walk with assistance, but her right hand is "but little serviceable"; saying that he ascribes her restoration to daily "electrical operations"; telling him that his own spirits are much depressed by Unwin's illness; commenting on how much he enjoyed seeing Bagot's eldest son when he visited with Miss Chester.
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