BIB_ID
190265
Accession number
MA 9087.49
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
[1883] May 18.
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.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "1. Manchester Sq. W." He owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
The year of writing is abbreviated and difficult to read, so it could be either 1883 or 1903. Internal evidence favors an 1883 dating.
Written in colored pencil.
On mourning stationery.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "1. Manchester Sq. W." He owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
The year of writing is abbreviated and difficult to read, so it could be either 1883 or 1903. Internal evidence favors an 1883 dating.
Written in colored pencil.
On mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Addressing Knight as "My dear Knight" and adding "glady I drop the Mr."; telling him that he has sent off a paper and will correct it in proof; writing that he was sorry not to be able to stay for the end of the meeting, but he had to finish writing a lecture on English literature that evening; discussing his preaching duties and the possibility of Knight taking over for him occasionally: "As to preaching, I am sometimes driven hard, but how could I ask you at St. Andrews, when the difficulty arises -- unless you happened to be in London -- then I need not say with how much pleasure I would see you in my pulpit"; congratulating Knight on "yr. Vols" (possibly Knight's multi-volume edition of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, the first volume of which was published in 1882).
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