BIB_ID
190270
Accession number
MA 9087.8
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1887 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 12.5 x 10.2 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
Asking for the first number of the Wordsworth Society Transactions; writing that he may have some free time in the future: "The Cong. are going to give me a curate! I feel as if I had got back into the Church. To have a curate after nearly -- yes -- 25 years of single-handed work fills me [with] an unknown & wild excitement. It is like a woman having a baby after 20 years of sterility"; explaining that this may allow him to make a trip to St. Andrews, where he would be glad to lecture on "the early Scottish Poets; & preach, if you like, on early Xn. [for "Christian"] stories -- but perhaps your people would not stand that, & would rather have a good emotional discourse about those matters wh. Science for a time has put in the background, but which are sure to reappear, like Oedipus at Colonus, at the end, & be, like him, the strength & Confirmation of the State."
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