BIB_ID
190214
Accession number
MA 8757.9
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1895 February 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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 "The Glade,/ Branch Hill,/ Hampstead."
Written on stationery embossed with the address "The Glade,/ Branch Hill,/ Hampstead."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for not being able to make "my hoped-for visit to St. Andrews"; relating that the Queen has made Ainger one of the Honorary Chaplains, "and commanded me to preach at Windsor on March 10th"; discussing "domestic anxieties", including "the health of one young niece who has to leave home for a while to be under medical care"; mentioning that "Poor A.K.H.B." has invited Ainger to be his guest in Scotland but that the latter is "wholly laid aside, I fear, by serious illness."
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