BIB_ID
107784
Accession number
MA 9825.1-5
Creator
Congreve, Richard, 1818-1899.
Display Date
London and Bolney, England, 1885-1886.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
5 items (8 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.
The letters were mounted and subsequently cut out of their earlier housing (possibly a volume of autograph letters collected by Knight).
The letters were mounted and subsequently cut out of their earlier housing (possibly a volume of autograph letters collected by Knight).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Being a collection of five autograph letters signed, to William Angus Knight, written between 1885 and 1886, from London and Bolney, West Sussex; discussing a possible contribution by Congreve to a work on Wordsworth, the meetings and publications of the Wordsworth Society, and other matters. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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