BIB_ID
190225
Accession number
MA 8815.2
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
[1881?] March 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 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.
The possible year of writing from the published letter.
Written from The Athenaeum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed with its Crest.
The possible year of writing from the published letter.
Written from The Athenaeum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed with its Crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining an offer to join the Wordsworth Club; saying "I have in like manner refused to belong to the Shakspeare[sic] Society. Life is too short for these things - at least my life, as school-inspecting has made it, is. Bishop Wordsworth is a most natural and proper President, and the plan of a chronological edition of the Poems is most attractive, though I foresee difficulties in the execution of it."
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