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WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)
A 2-page autograph letter, signed, from Weston, Underwood, April 29th 1793, to an unknown recipient, sending his condolences on the death of a friend: "We are benefited by their lives, and though their death cannot but fill us with regret, they are sure to bequeath to us when they die a comfort more substantial than even philosophy, or anything but the gospel, could suggest -- the comfort of hoping, believing, knowing that they are happy." Mr. Martyn is to be thanked for the memorial that accompanied his letter: "It is a bequest which could not fail to make my heart ache, but it aches with a pang that I wish to cherish ...."
A 2-page autograph letter, signed, from Weston, Underwood, April 29th 1793, to an unknown recipient, sending his condolences on the death of a friend: "We are benefited by their lives, and though their death cannot but fill us with regret, they are sure to bequeath to us when they die a comfort more substantial than even philosophy, or anything but the gospel, could suggest -- the comfort of hoping, believing, knowing that they are happy." Mr. Martyn is to be thanked for the memorial that accompanied his letter: "It is a bequest which could not fail to make my heart ache, but it aches with a pang that I wish to cherish ...."