BIB_ID
190287
Accession number
MA 9087.27
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1897 May 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 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.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Cottage Hotel. Lynton. / W. Devon," but he explains in the first line of the letter that he is in fact in Dunster and will be going to Lynton the next day.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Cottage Hotel. Lynton. / W. Devon," but he explains in the first line of the letter that he is in fact in Dunster and will be going to Lynton the next day.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that he has directed the publisher Isbister to send Knight a Wordsworth volume; thanking Knight for an invitation to Scotland, but writing that his plans are dependent on those of his son and daughter; adding that he will be in London in June, for Jubilee work: "Jubilees are my abhorrence. I endure monarchy with us because it has a nice ancient smell, & has no power -- but I can't join in celebrations of it every ten years; or indeed in any celebration of it at all."
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