BIB_ID
190476
Accession number
MA 9787.3
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1880 June 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.2 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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying there is very little he is able to do to help him but any small thing he is able to do will give him pleasure; saying if he is able to visit him in August "...I shall be delighted to see you at Heath's Court where I have a volume of Wordsworth's letters & the American Edition with the translation from Virgil;" giving him his address in Devonshire.
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