BIB_ID
190484
Accession number
MA 9787.13
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
Ottery Saint Mary, England, 1883 January 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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 "Heath's Court, Ottery S. Mary."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from "Heath's Court, Ottery S. Mary."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a specific Wordsworth poem; saying "I may be wrong but I do not see in your list of Wordsworth's Poems any notice of the little Poems in the first volume of my copy with his MSS in it. I accordingly enclose you his copy of them with the Latin Poem of Thomas Warton, Fellow of Trinity Oxford & Professor of Poetry in that University of which Wordsworth's lines are a translation;" adding, in a postscript, the 4 lines of Latin verse as follows: "Somne veni! et quamvis placidissima mortis imago es, / Consortem cupio te tamen esse tori; / Huc ades haud abiture citò! nam sic sine vita / Vivere quam suave est, sic sine morte mori!"
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