Record ID:
365039
Accession number:
MA 86.39
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.4 cm
Notes:
With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is docketed and has a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Summary:
Expressing concern that Bagot's brother Chester is ill; noting that he and Mary Unwin went to visit [William] Hayley at Eartham; reporting that Mary Unwin is better, "but by no means so well as before this last indisposition seized her; not being able yet to rise from her seat or to walk without assistance"; saying that his own "spirits have been more dejected than is common even with [him], and the winter, now beginning, threatens [him] that [he] shall not soon be better."
Provenance:
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
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