BIB_ID
190468
Accession number
MA 9786.13
Creator
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920.
Display Date
London, England, 1900 February 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 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 printed "50A Albemarle Street, London, W."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery printed "50A Albemarle Street, London, W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling him he will go that day to the British Museum to find "...the advertisement in the Courier of Feb. 1822" and send him a copy if he can find it; commenting on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lecturing as a means of paying off his debt to the Gillmans "...a proof that he was on the footing of a paying guest - not a guest absolutely as the Gillmans of this generation assert. I have no doubt that the G's were most generous;" asking if Knight has any editions of the Byron in the Library at St. Andrews and if so would someone send him a list.
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