BIB_ID
190273
Accession number
MA 9087.11
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1888 January 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.2 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.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "1. Manchester Sq." He owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "1. Manchester Sq." He owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that he has had a health scare and will not be able to come to St. Andrews after all: "the old pain & trouble began in my leg -- & I was for many days uncertain whether it wd. not develop into a long & steady attack of the disease I suffer from. I believe I have escaped this time -- I feel as if it has been beaten off & I hope to resume work next Sunday. But I dare not take a long journey in the cold, except at great risk, & the risk is one I cannot face. If this thing came on suddenly at St. Andrews, I should be laid up there, unable to move for three or four months"; apologizing for cancelling his visit; writing that he looks forward "with great interest" to Knight's Life of William Wordsworth.
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