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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8042/843f |
| Title | William Cowper, Olney (Buckinghamshire) to his cousin Lady Hesketh, Southampton |
| Date | 12 Oct 1785 |
| Description | It is no new thing with you to give me a pleasure but you do not often give more than you gave me this morning when I found your letter; we are all grown young again; my affection for you has not been abated by interrupted intercourse or years; I can only recollect how much I once valued you; a thousand times I have recollected a thousand scenes in which our two selves have performed the whole of the drama; the hours spent with you were the most pleasant of my former days; I fond constant employment necessary and therefore take care to be constantly employed; manual employment does not engage the mind sufficiently; composition, especially of verse, absorbs it wholly; I generally write 3 hours a morning and in the evening I transcribe; should you ask me where I have spent the last 17 summers, I should answer 'at Olney'. |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Barnes family of Chesterfield |
| Format | Document |