Record ID:
365021
Accession number:
MA 86.35
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes:
With a separate address panel addressed to "The Revd. Walter Bagot"; address panel is docketed and has a trace of a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters from and related to William Cowper; please see collection record for MA 86-87 for more information.
Summary:
Expressing his pleasure that Bagot's "brother the Bishop" and his "good friend and neighbour the Clergyman" liked his translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey; reporting that the first edition of his Homer is "nearly sold" and a second edition will be going to press soon; reporting that he is definitely preparing an edition of [John] Milton's works for the bookseller [Joseph] Johnson.
Provenance:
Sale (Sotheby's, 28-29 July 1903, lot 460); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1904.
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