BIB_ID
190283
Accession number
MA 9087.22
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1893 December 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.8 x 10.7 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.
On the verso, an autograph letter signed (written from Dublin on December 7, 1893) by William Brooke, saying that he knows nothing of the "Earliest portrait" and that they bought a reproduction of Benjamin Haydon's portrait of Wordsworth from one "Hubert Bell of Ambleside."
Signed with his initials.
On the verso, an autograph letter signed (written from Dublin on December 7, 1893) by William Brooke, saying that he knows nothing of the "Earliest portrait" and that they bought a reproduction of Benjamin Haydon's portrait of Wordsworth from one "Hubert Bell of Ambleside."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending a note from his brother William (this letter is written on the verso); telling him that when he is finished with the manuscript he is working on (probably the history of English poetry discussed in MA 9087.21), he will send it to Knight "and leave it to yr. discretion as to whether it will suit you or not"; speculating that "a book about individuals & their art as poets might even sell better (if it be worth buying at all) than a book which would be more historical."
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