BIB_ID
103703
Accession number
MA 23302.1
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
London, England, 1893 January 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 items (1 page) ; 20.5 x 12.7 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.
Housed with an additional letter (MA 23302.2) from Henley to Knight dated February 13, 1893, accepting the offer.
Written from "1, Great College Street, / Westminster, S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Housed with an additional letter (MA 23302.2) from Henley to Knight dated February 13, 1893, accepting the offer.
Written from "1, Great College Street, / Westminster, S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the offer of an honorary degree from St. Andrews; saying "I am greatly obliged to you for your letter, which gave me equal pleasure & surprise. I can scarce (I admit)believe it to be in the intention of your University to confer so excellent a distinction on one who has done so little as myself; nor, in the absence of a formal intimation of that intention can I speak definitely in relation to the matter. But, as I have said, I hear of the possibility of such a gift with very great pleasure."
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