BIB_ID
102328
Accession number
MA 23071.2
Creator
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
Display Date
Hawarden, Wales, 1887 January 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.8 x 8.9 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending Knight his Wordsworth letters; saying "I value them very much and I would beg you to send me an acknowledgment of having received them for perusal. Should you wish to make use of them or any part of them in the Biography which I am glad to hear you have in mind you will kindly let me know before printing off what you may propose. And I wish you all success in your deeply interesting talk. Wordsworth used to come to me when I lived as a young man in the Albany and my recollections of him so far as they go are very pleasing. His simplicity, kindness, and freedom from the worldly type mark this genial character."
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