BIB_ID
190268
Accession number
MA 9087.6
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1886 November 22.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Agreeing to provide notes to "1802" (possibly the 1802 section of Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works, which Knight was then in the process of editing); asking four questions about what the notes should be like; adding in a postscript the titles of other poems that Brooke thinks should be included in the volume, among them "To Toussaint L'Ouverture" and the sonnets beginning "It is not to be thought of that the Flood" and "When I have borne in memory what has tamed"; arguing that these are far greater poems than some of the ones Knight has selected and adding "Perhaps you will be in a rage with this. I hope you will."
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