Record ID:
365153
Accession number:
MA 87.2
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description:
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 23.3 cm
Notes:
Addressed to "William Cowper Esqre. / at Olney / Bucks."
With trace of a seal.
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.
Summary:
Expressing pleasure that Cowper accepted his subscription to his translation of Homer; promising his assistance once Cowper's "plan of publication is fixed"; telling him to return "the good Bishop's sermons" to Mr. Chester when he has finished them; reporting that he plans to return home on Monday.
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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