BIB_ID
190240
Accession number
MA 8856.1
Creator
Smith, Florence Baird, 1827-1903.
Display Date
1887 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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 quoted reference "but a wandering voice" is from William Wordsworth's "To The Cuckoo."
Written on stationery engraved "81, Lexham Gardens, / Kensington, W."
The quoted reference "but a wandering voice" is from William Wordsworth's "To The Cuckoo."
Written on stationery engraved "81, Lexham Gardens, / Kensington, W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning her father's correspondence with Wordsworth; saying neither she nor her sister "...had any personal knowledge of Mr. Wordsworth and only by hearsay through my grandfather's memories, and his keen and meditative observation sometimes made me wish (as one finds too often occasion for about the great ones of the earth) that the Poet had been 'but a wandering voice.' We have some letters of the family which at Dr. Japp's desire we asked to be allowed to make use of in my Father's life, which request having been refused somewhat uncourteously I imagine we have no right to make use of them in any other direction. My remembrance is that they are dull, but of this I cannot be sure till I read them again;" expressing her hope that on his next visit to London he will have time for a more leisurely visit.
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