BIB_ID
107764
Accession number
MA 9909.1-36
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Oxford and Grasmere, England, 1877-1886.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
36 items (114 pages) ; various sizes
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 primarily from Brasenose College, Oxford and Grasmere.
Written primarily from Brasenose College, Oxford and Grasmere.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Being a collection of thirty-four autograph letters signed from E.H. Cradock to William Angus Knight and two autograph signed letters from H.C. Pigon to E.H. Cradock primarily related to Knight's work "The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth" published in the autumn of 1878 and Volumes I-IV of Knight's "Poetical Works of William Wordsworth" published in 1882 and 1883. Knight collaborated extensively with Cradock on all the work in this period. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually in thirty-six separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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