BIB_ID
190278
Accession number
MA 9087.17
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1890 July 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.4 x 12.7 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
Referring to Knight's hesitations about joining the Executive Committee of the Dove Cottage Trust (see MA 9087.16 for context): "It did not strike me that you wished to abandon us. What I did think was that to withdraw your name frm. the Executive Committee would be rather disastrous to our purpose, because your name carries so much weight with all those who care for Wordsworth -- and it was to that point I meant to speak. It was fitting that [H. D.] Rawnsley shd. belong to the Committee, but it need not follow from that that you should not"; responding to Knight's concerns about a circular not being shown to him before it was made public; discussing the committee process and support for the purchase of Dove Cottage: "I am distressed to hear we must count on the coolness or opposition of the Wordsworth family. Why is that? Mrs. Ward told me the Arnolds wd. gladly, she thought, join."
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