BIB_ID
190211
Accession number
MA 8757.6
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1887 September 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 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 "Callendar House/ Clifton, Bristol."
Addressed from "Callendar House/ Clifton, Bristol."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing that his "Residence" in Bristol ends in September; saying he "should like nothing more than to join you on such an expedition as you suggest"; discussing his travel plans for October and his desire to have "a little holiday & change of air... before I begin my Temple duties"; writing that after he leaves Bristol, he is going to Ottery St. Mary to stay with Lord Coleridge and "see the 'fons et origo' of all the Coleridges."
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