BIB_ID
365203
Accession number
MA 87.17
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
1805 May 29.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 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 "Revd. Walter Bagot / Blithfield / Litchfield"; address panel is franked and has a postmark and seal.
With a separate address panel addressed to "Revd. Walter Bagot / Blithfield / Litchfield"; address panel is franked and has a postmark and seal.
Summary
Reporting that "Johnny of Norfolk" is "greatly recover'd from the nervous panic, which accidentally stopt him at Hounslow on his road to Blithfield"; discussing the depression suffered by William Cowper, and noting that it is also assailing "his young kinsman in the more chearful season of life"; mentioning problems with his eyes.
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