BIB_ID
365182
Accession number
MA 87.7
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1786 May 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Addressed to "William Cowper Esqr. / Olney -- Newport Pagnell / Bucks."
Franked on the letter and the additional address panel.
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 an additional address panel addressed to "William Cowper Esq. / Olney near Newport Pagnel"; address panel with postmark and the following note: "This letter being too late for last Post, has occasioned its being twice franked."
With seal showing the Bagot goat.
Franked on the letter and the additional address panel.
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 an additional address panel addressed to "William Cowper Esq. / Olney near Newport Pagnel"; address panel with postmark and the following note: "This letter being too late for last Post, has occasioned its being twice franked."
With seal showing 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
Asking why he has not received any of Cowper's printed proposals [for his translation of Homer]; discussing the swan quill he offered to Cowper, and asserting that although he "presented a former translator of Homer with the quill of an Eagle," he believes "the swan is the more Poetick bird"; telling him that he rejoices in Cowper's "rising fame."
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