BIB_ID
190277
Accession number
MA 9087.16
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1890 July 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 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
Suggesting that Knight "reclaim the portrait at once" from Walker (see MA 9087.14); writing that they have appointed the members of the Executive Committee for the Dove Cottage Trust; listing their names, among them George Craik, H. D. Rawnsley, and Alfred Ainger; discussing the project further: "The Circular is only out now. Why this extraordinary Scotch caution on yr. part about it? It is not a Bill -- or a Treatise or Opinion, or an attack on Home Rule -- there is nothing wh. will involve you in difficulties. I am puzzled by yr. letter. You either want to get away from us -- or you were in a fit of violent depression. I suspect the last"; cajoling Knight to join: "Unless you throw us up -- we ought to have yr. name on the Executive Committee. As to the 3. Secretaries -- they are not intended to do any special work. But you know that Scotch folk & Wordsworth folk will write more readily to yr. name than to mine"; commenting on Rawnsley: "I proposed Rawnsley. He was there -- & I was surprised. I thought he was a man of seventy. Has Medea been at him?"
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