BIB_ID
190296
Accession number
MA 9087.38
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1898 February 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 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 "Windsor Hotel / Glasgow."
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Windsor Hotel / Glasgow."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending his sympathies and discouraging Knight from "going to law": "It is to get out of the frying pan into the fire, to seek to heal a trouble with law"; commenting on Knight's forthcoming trip to the United States: "I hope that the voyage will rest you, brain & body, & I wish it were longer for your sake. I always fear American life for any of my friends -- but the keen air may give you strength. For my part, nothing would induce me to go to America"; saying that he will soon be going to Dove Cottage, where he plans to "take the measures of the rooms for bookcases, & of the walls where your prints can go. So that I shall have some clear ideas as to how to house your gift which I can lay before the Committee when I return"; asking for an address in the United States at which he can write to Knight.
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