BIB_ID
365184
Accession number
MA 87.9
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1794 May 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 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
Expressing his pleasure at the news that the King has settled a pension of £300 on Cowper; hoping that he will "continue to write in Verse and Prose for [his] own amusement, and the instruction of mankind"; asking him to "affirm" this good news "under [his] own hand."
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