BIB_ID
190234
Accession number
MA 8815.14
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
1887 November 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 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.
Written on stationery engraved "Pains Hill Cottage / Cobham, Surrey."
Written on stationery engraved "Pains Hill Cottage / Cobham, Surrey."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Referring to Knight's book on Wordsworth; saying he would "...be glad to have your book which I shall hope to find at the Athenæum when I go there. In writing the life of Wordsworth you are filling a real gap. I looked at his nephew's two volumes again in the summer; they are impossible."
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