BIB_ID
190271
Accession number
MA 9087.9
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1887 November 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 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.
Signed with his initials.
Signed with his initials.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Accepting an invitation from the Students' Representative Council to speak at St. Andrews; discussing his health: "My legs are much better, but Rheumatism has got its fangs in me"; suggesting as a subject for his talk, "The expediency of carrying out now to the full, for the advantage of the United Kingdom, of the plans of Guy Fawkes."
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