BIB_ID
190372
Accession number
MA 3459.13
Creator
Campbell, James Dykes, 1838-1895.
Display Date
1885 Oct. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling him he has obtained Wordsworth's "2 volume from 1815--and the third volume 1820--which belonged to Barron Field," and that there are many marginal notes; mentioning that Field had planned to write a life of Wordsworth but was begged not to by the poet; speculating that the marginal notes may offer new information.
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