BIB_ID
365094
Accession number
MA 86.49
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Display Date
1788 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.4 cm
Notes
"From John Newton's letters" (MA 733?)
Addressed to "Samuel Rose Esqr. / No. 23 Percy Street / Rathbone Place / London."
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Addressed to "Samuel Rose Esqr. / No. 23 Percy Street / Rathbone Place / London."
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 postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson before 1913.
Summary
Commenting on the death of Rose's father, and noting, "You have indeed, losing a father, lost a friend, but you have not lost his instructions, his example was not buried with him, but happily for you (happily because you are desirous to avail yourself of it) still lives in your remembrance and is cherish'd in your best affections"; quoting from Homer's Iliad; wishing that Homer "were living now, and within [his] reach"; thanking him for the offer of some books, but declining it because he is concerned that "by connecting the study of writers upon Homer and about him with the study of Homer himself, [he] should not live long enough to reach the end of [his] undertaking."
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