BIB_ID
107621
Accession number
MA 9819.1
Creator
Northampton, William Compton, Marquess of, 1851-1913.
Display Date
Castle Ashby, England, 1901 December 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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.
Written on stationery engraved with ""Castle Ashby / Northampton."
Part of a small collection of three letters to Professor William Angus Knight. See also MA 9819.2 and MA 9819.3.
Written on stationery engraved with ""Castle Ashby / Northampton."
Part of a small collection of three letters to Professor William Angus Knight. See also MA 9819.2 and MA 9819.3.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Being a letter dictated by Lord Northampton in reply to Professor Knight's letter to Lady Northampton; saying "Lady Northampton begs me answer your letter for her as she is unable to write. We are not living in London at all now owing to her delicate state of health, and therefore cannot be of much assistance to your protégée Miss Higgins, but if we hear of anyone wishing for lessons we will give her name and address. I have ordered 2 copies of your collection of poems, which you have issued for the Queen Alexandra fund. They will be useful Xmas presents. We should both be so glad to meet again;" adding, in a postscript and in his hand, "my wife's kindest regards."
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