BIB_ID
81547
Accession number
MA 87.1
Creator
Bagot, Walter, 1731-1806.
Display Date
1785 Nov. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.4 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
Asking him to accept "this early subscription to [Cowper's] Homer"; requesting "a parcel of [his] subscription Papers" so he can distribute them "amongst [his] friends & acquaintances as far as [he] can."
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