BIB_ID
190264
Accession number
MA 9087.3
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1882 March 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 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.
Written in colored pencil.
Written in colored pencil.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that he does not think Coleridge's other poems in Lyrical Ballads are "sufficiently important" and would not have proposed including "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" in its original place in a reprint of Lyrical Ballads (see MA 9087.2 for context) had Wordsworth not "had some hand in it, though of the smallest, & that its discussion started the Lyr. Ballads"; writing that perhaps it would be better to put it in an appendix, though "Of course it would be better still to reproduce, somewhat in its old form, the whole of the Lyrical Ballads, & I feel that there could be sale enough for the little book to pay its expenses"; offering to write a short piece for Knight and regretting that he cannot attend a meeting.
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