BIB_ID
365047
Accession number
MA 86.41
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1793 May 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
In an unknown hand. Signature is in the hand of the copyist, not Cowper's hand.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
The original of this letter is held by Princeton. The Morgan holds an address panel which appears to have accompanied the original letter (it is addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot" and docketed "May 4th 1793" in Bagot's hand.) This address panel is bound below MA 87.12.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
The original of this letter is held by Princeton. The Morgan holds an address panel which appears to have accompanied the original letter (it is addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot" and docketed "May 4th 1793" in Bagot's hand.) This address panel is bound below MA 87.12.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Referring to the death of Bagot's brother, Charles Chester of Chicheley, as their "common loss"; offering as consolation the thought that "the deprivation cannot be long" because their "sun is setting too"; thanking him for his "friendly services to [his] Brother poet [James] Hurdis."
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