BIB_ID
190210
Accession number
MA 8757.5
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1886 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 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."
Written on stationery embossed with the address "2, Upper Terrace,/ Hampstead."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for not keeping their appointment at the Athenaeum, Ainger "having taken cold in the sudden change of East Wind last Thursday after the fierce heat of the preceding days"; discussing the last meeting of the Wordsworth Society, at which Aubrey de Vere, John Veitch and others spoke: "I think there was some very valuable matter in Veitch's Paper, but the unfortunate Bias towards Preaching! Preaching! which so few Divines can escape, did not certainly improve the composition"; hoping they can get enough subscriptions to publish Knight's "larger volume"; and saying that "no letters of Wordsworth's, unless absolutely trivial, should be left unprinted."
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