BIB_ID
365159
Accession number
MA 87.3
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1786 Jan. 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Discussing the publication of Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad; reiterating his promise to distribute Cowper's "printed proposals" and "subscription papers" to his friends and acquaintances; advising him not to send his papers to Mr. Chester; mentioning the Bishop's sermons and telling him that the Bishop is also a good poet; reporting that his wife "is at present with her father."
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