BIB_ID
190267
Accession number
MA 9087.5
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1886 October 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.3 x 8.9 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.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "1. Manchester Sq W." He owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Explaining that he has only just received Knight's letter on his return to London; thanking the Students' Representative Council for an invitation to speak, but saying that he must decline: "I cannot get down so far at this time of the year; and I have been so long away that I cannot leave the congregation or I shall get into a row. Ask them to pardon & excuse me"; asking after other projects of mutual interest underway: "What other Wordsworth work is doing. I see [Herbert] Rix is going to edit the Duddon Sonnets."
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