BIB_ID
190224
Accession number
MA 8815.1
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
1879 July 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 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.
Written from the Athenæum Club, Pall Mall on the Club's stationery blind-embossed with its crest.
Written from the Athenæum Club, Pall Mall on the Club's stationery blind-embossed with its crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Questioning whether a book on Wordsworth and sent to the Club addressed to Arthur Arnold was meant for him; asking if the publisher is Kegan Paul and if it is he will conclude it was meant for him; adding "There is plenty of room for all of us as recommenders of Wordsworth, and it would have been indeed a pity if you had withheld your book about him, or any part of it. I hope to return to it when I am in the North this autumn; it is a book to be read in Wordsworth's own country;" referring, in a postscript, to a paper he has published which "...is not an elaborate Criticism of Wordsworth's poetry, but the sort of essay which seemed to me best calculated to introduce and help such a volume. You must read it with this view of its character and design."
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