BIB_ID
190207
Accession number
MA 8757.2
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1883 August 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Addressed from "Borrowstone House/ Kincardine O'Neil/ Aberdeenshire".
Addressed from "Borrowstone House/ Kincardine O'Neil/ Aberdeenshire".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing his stay in Scotland and his activities there: "I am not an athlete, but a poor pedestrian, not having very strong health & a little fishing is all the bodily exercise I allow myself. Ben Nevis, I fear, is not for 'the likes of me'"; mentioning Knight's fourth volume of Wordsworth and commenting on the poet's identifying himself with "Scottish sights & sounds"; quoting from Wordsworth's poem "Stepping Westward".
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