Record ID:
365042
Accession number:
MA 86.40
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 23.3 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:
Writing that since Bagot's last letter he has been "much indisposed, very blind, and very busy"; noting that his translations of Homer are "on the point of going to the Press again"; asking if Bagot's brother, who used to be Dean of Christ Church at Oxford, would be willing to exert his influence on behalf of a poet named [James] Hurdis who is applying for the "Poetry-Professorship" there; commenting on the French: "they are a terrible race, and I have a horror both of them and their principles."
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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