BIB_ID
190466
Accession number
MA 9786.11
Creator
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920.
Display Date
London, England, 1899 March 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.4 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 from "167 S. James Road / Croydon" on stationery printed "50A Albemarle Street, London, W" but which has been crossed through.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from "167 S. James Road / Croydon" on stationery printed "50A Albemarle Street, London, W" but which has been crossed through.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Agreeing to contribute "...a piece of his [S.T. Coleridge] to Dove Cottage and if I can a picture, but I do not possess any store of engravings - only please give me time;" adding that he has just completed the "Childe Harold volume. It has been a heavy piece of work and has taken a lot out of me & in the middle of it influenza, not bad, but bad enough;" adding that he believes the next volume will require less annotation; saying "I suppose I shall be told that the public want to be amused and not informed & that &c &c but there it is, and the public must make the best they can of it;" thanking him for his kind invitation to St. Andrews but saying his days of travelling that far from home are over.
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