BIB_ID
365169
Accession number
MA 87.6
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1786 Feb. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Addressed to "William Cowper Esqr. / Newport Pagnel / Bucks."
Franked.
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 seal; seal shows the Bagot goat.
Franked.
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 seal; seal shows the Bagot goat.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
Summary
Informing him that his wife has died; asking Cowper to pray for him and his family "under [their] great affliction."
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