BIB_ID
190304
Accession number
MA 9087.48
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
1906 March 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.2 x 10.2 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 "London."
Brooke gives the place of writing as "London."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Arranging a meeting at Macmillans in London with an "E. Smith" in attendance; writing that he thinks the Trustees of Dove Cottage "ought to have all the papers & the banking accounts in the hands of a good solicitor who, being paid for his work, should be permanent"; discussing the election of additional Trustees; enclosing Smith's letter (this is no longer with the item) and saying that he had sent George Macmillan's letter to his brother William Brooke.
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