BIB_ID
115974
Accession number
MA 466.12
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
1880 Nov. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of poems and letters from Alfred Tennyson. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Professor Knight was a Wordsworth scholar and a professor of English and Philosophy at St. Andrews University.
Written below the signature of this letter, in an unknown hand, is "Professor Knight."
Written on stationery embossed "Aldworth / Haslemere / Surrey."
Professor Knight was a Wordsworth scholar and a professor of English and Philosophy at St. Andrews University.
Written below the signature of this letter, in an unknown hand, is "Professor Knight."
Written on stationery embossed "Aldworth / Haslemere / Surrey."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Thanking his students but declining "the honour proposed."
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