BIB_ID
107269
Accession number
MA 9922.2
Creator
Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquis of, 1858-1945.
Display Date
London, England, 1908 April 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 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.
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
Written on stationery engraved "Colonial Office, / Downing Street, S.W."
See also MA 9922.1, a previous letter to Knight from Crewe, dated December 17, 1907 concerning the staging of a Coleridge play.
Marked "Private" above the salutation.
Written on stationery engraved "Colonial Office, / Downing Street, S.W."
See also MA 9922.1, a previous letter to Knight from Crewe, dated December 17, 1907 concerning the staging of a Coleridge play.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining to have his name appear at the foot of a letter of appeal; saying "I think that my Private Secretary wrote to you yesterday, explaining how the matter stands as to my name appearing at the foot of the proposed letter. As I pointed out before, after having taken the principal part in the Keats Memorial, I cannot undertake any similar position in regard to this. My name, therefore, can only appear with others of the Committee, not as one selected from the list for this purpose. Lytton's name, with yours, ought to be sufficient, and I cannot take the responsibility of signing, except as one of the entire Committee, a special appeal of this kind. I may say that the idea of the special appeal seems to me a good one i.e., the appeal first to 30 persons, and if they decline, to others in turn till the £150 is collected."
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