Autograph letter signed : [London], to William Angus Knight, 1878 November 22.

Saying that he is charmed with Knight's book, and that he only wishes that he "were going now to the Lakes that I might take it with me & study it, & Wordsworth over again, with its help. It will be a real boon to all who love the scenery of the Poet" (Brooke may be referring to Knight's "The English Lake District, as Interpreted in the Poems of Wordsworth," which was published by David Douglas in Edinburgh in 1878); telling him that he had bought a copy of the book the day before Knight arrived, but that he was glad to receive a copy from Knight directly; writing about a series of lectures (possibly the lectures on English poetry that Brooke gave at York Street in 1872) and saying that "I only wish I could have, when I did those lectures, written all I wanted to write about Wordsworth. But so much that I wished to say I was excluded from saying by the form of the lectures, which demanded that the things said sh. have some reference to Theology. It was a stupid form, & one moved, in consequence, in fetters"; adding that he hopes Knight will call on him whenever he comes to London.