BIB_ID
190208
Accession number
MA 8757.3
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1884 May 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 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 embossed with the address "2, Upper Terrace,/ Hampstead."
With a note in Knight's hand regarding the allusion.
Written on stationery embossed with the address "2, Upper Terrace,/ Hampstead."
With a note in Knight's hand regarding the allusion.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking for assistance on a "Wordsworthian difficulty," being an allusion in a letter from Lamb to Wordsworth to "Wordsworth's 'experience of tailors'" and "to some tailor of whom W. had written (either in a poem or a letter) as 'wheeling his airy flight from a precipice'"; asking whether Knight knows of "any such incident or allusion in any published poem of W's?"; connecting this to Lamb's essay "On the Melancholy of Tailors" about which Ainger was writing a note.
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