Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : [place not specified], to William Angus Knight, undated.

BIB_ID
190307
Accession number
MA 9087.54
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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.
Based on internal evidence, this letter may have been written in 1890 or 1891.
Signed with his initials.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that the Wordsworth portrait had been sent "some time ago to the Photogravure Man who is much interested in it"; writing that he is nearly finished with his "little pamphlet about Dove Cottage"; adding that he hopes Knight will be in London for more than two days and inviting him to dine.