BIB_ID
190294
Accession number
MA 9087.35
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1897 December 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.1 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.
Embossed letterhead: "1. Manchester Square, / W." Brooke owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Embossed letterhead: "1. Manchester Square, / W." Brooke owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the proper acknowledgment of Knight's gifts to Dove Cottage and confusion over what was desired; suggesting that Knight write a letter addressed to the Committee and Trustees of Dove Cottage (care of Macmillan and Company) "offering the gifts & making your own conditions as to their guardianship"; recusing himself from the process from there on out; telling Knight that he "can also ask to see, as I think you should see, the Act or Charter by which Dove Cottage was established as a National Property & its future arranged."
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