BIB_ID
190315
Accession number
MA 9087.25
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
[1895 October 22].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 11.5 x 8.9 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.
The year and date of writing is taken from the postmark.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Grasmere, Rothay Hotel." The card also has a Grasmere postmark.
Addressed to "Professor Knight / University / St. Andrews / N. B."
Signed with his initials.
The year and date of writing is taken from the postmark.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Grasmere, Rothay Hotel." The card also has a Grasmere postmark.
Addressed to "Professor Knight / University / St. Andrews / N. B."
Signed with his initials.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that he will remain in Grasmere for three more weeks, "[s]o when you come to the Stepping Stones I shall see you in peace & quietness & have a good long talk"; writing that he is sorry to hear of Knight's bad news and he "sympathizes most truly"; concluding "I have another but I hope a slight attack of my old enemy. Under the circs. it is a blessing not to be at home."
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