BIB_ID
190462
Accession number
MA 9786.7
Creator
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920.
Display Date
London, England, 1897 January 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.4 x 9.6 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.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery engraved "Oxford & Cambridge Club, / Pall Mall, S.W."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery engraved "Oxford & Cambridge Club, / Pall Mall, S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning letters and verses by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that Knight is trying to identify; saying he has none of the [Joseph] Cottle letters from 1796 and suggesting that the "nonsense verse" to which Knight referred may have been in the hand of a dealer and a friend of E.H. Coleridge's, S.J. Davey; saying "The writing is like Coleridge's youthful hand, but the watermark is 1820 something & the verses are rubbish;" adding that he has "...been up to my eyes in Byron" and adding, in a postscript, that he would very much like to see the verses.
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