BIB_ID
365078
Accession number
MA 86.44
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
[1790 Jan.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot."
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Probable date is based on the printed version of the letter.
With trace of a seal; the letter is torn at the seal with some loss of text.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Probable date is based on the printed version of the letter.
With trace of a seal; the letter is torn at the seal with some loss of text.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Discussing a translation of Homer's Iliad by [Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de] Villoison; mentioning Callimachus; commenting on how Homer's works were collected; mentioning shared acquaintances.
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