BIB_ID
190474
Accession number
MA 9787.1
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1880 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.4 x 12.6 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 mourning stationery engraved with his crest and "1. Sussex Square, / W."
The Wordsworth Society held its first meeting on September 29, 1880 in Grasmere. Professor Knight was the Secretary and Lord Coleridge was among the 68 founding members.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery engraved with his crest and "1. Sussex Square, / W."
The Wordsworth Society held its first meeting on September 29, 1880 in Grasmere. Professor Knight was the Secretary and Lord Coleridge was among the 68 founding members.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he would be honored to join the Wordsworth Society; saying "Although it is true as you say that we are personally unknown to one another yet as a humble worshipper of Wordsworth I am familiar with your book & have often thanked you for it in my heart. I shall be greatly honoured by being allowed to be a member of your Club [Wordsworth Society]. If you should ever be in London & will do me the honour to call here I have several serious bits of Wordsworth Literature which I shall be delighted to show you. I do not possess myself an original of the Descriptive Sketches - & I never ever saw a copy of the Translation of the second book of the Æneid - But I will inquire amongst my kinsmen & friends for both or either...They are I know extremely scarce."
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