BIB_ID
101541
Accession number
MA 23528.6
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.
Display Date
Exeter, England, 1881? December 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.9 x 9.8 cm
Notes
The signature and part of the text has been cut from the letter.
An earlier record for this letter suggests the recipient may have been Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
One of seven letters from Lord Houghton to Professor Knight (MA 23528.1-7). Only two of the letters provide a year of writing, one is clearly 1885 and the other possibly 1886. All of the letters appear to concern the Wordsworth Society and several concern the President's Address to the Society which Lord Houghton delivered on July 8, 1885. The Wordsworth Society was formed in 1880 and continued through 1886.
Written from "Pynes, / Exeter" on stationery engraved with the address.
An earlier record for this letter suggests the recipient may have been Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of St. Andrews.
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
One of seven letters from Lord Houghton to Professor Knight (MA 23528.1-7). Only two of the letters provide a year of writing, one is clearly 1885 and the other possibly 1886. All of the letters appear to concern the Wordsworth Society and several concern the President's Address to the Society which Lord Houghton delivered on July 8, 1885. The Wordsworth Society was formed in 1880 and continued through 1886.
Written from "Pynes, / Exeter" on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that when he joined the Wordsworth Society he did not foresee his declining health, and while he must decline any new responsibilities, his name is at their service; commenting on the Society and mentioning other literary figures.
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