BIB_ID
365163
Accession number
MA 87.4
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1786 Jan. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.6 cm
Notes
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 a separate address panel addressed to "Willm. Cowper Esqr. / Olney -- Newport Pagnell / Bucks."; address panel franked and with postmark.
With a separate address panel addressed to "Willm. Cowper Esqr. / Olney -- Newport Pagnell / Bucks."; address panel franked and with postmark.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Reporting that he is asking his friends to subscribe to Cowper's translation of Homer; noting that some people he is asking are "of the higher rank," and having their names attached to the book "might make the work fashionable"; describing his success in convincing his brother Howard to subscribe, and advising Cowper to tell his bookseller to wait on Howard in London with his "two former volumes of poems handsomely bound as a present" to show Howard that Cowper remembers him from their school days; mentioning that Mr. Frederick Vane has said he will subscribe if the bookseller brings the proposals to his home.
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