BIB_ID
190292
Accession number
MA 9087.33
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1897 November 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for not being able to see him earlier in the day: "I was sorry when I heard late this afternoon that you had called this morning when I was engaged. A person in great trouble was with me"; suggesting times and dates to meet; telling him that the bookseller Bain has valued his Wordsworth books (see MA 9087.29) at 35.0.0; commenting on Bain's valuation: "It seems a small sum, but their condition is not very good, and the later editions & those in one Volume have no worth in the market. I think it probably that you would get more for them if you sent them to Sotheby's. I fear the Committee of Dove Cottage -- seeing that they would not want the later editions, & that of the earlier ones -- the Evening Walk & the Ed: 1807 are imperfect would scarcely agree to buy the whole collection -- & to buy only a part would be unfair to you."
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