BIB_ID
190217
Accession number
MA 8757.12
Creator
Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904.
Display Date
1900 January 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.5 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Mentioning a letter supplied to him by a grandson of Wordsworth during Ainger's editing of Charles Lamb's letters fourteen years before and asking Knight to convey to his regrets for failing to acknowledge the gift properly; explaining "I presume that Mr. Wordsworth must have given Mrs. Sandford the letter to pass on to me, & that she afterwards supposed that I had acknowledged it; while I, possibly, imagined that she had!"; wondering whether "he can recall the [illegible] letter of Lamb to his grandfather w. he sent me a copy of! I wonder if it was a fragment of a letter addressed to Dorothy Wordsworth"; saying that "The Edition de Luxe (vile name!) is approaching its end"; and mentioning the death of Ruskin, "a true Wordsworthian, to his honour. I wonder who will write his Life--so far as he has not written it himself."
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