BIB_ID
190487
Accession number
MA 9787.16
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
England, 1883 April 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 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 embossed with his crest and dated "Ecclesiastical Commission / 6th April - 1883."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery embossed with his crest and dated "Ecclesiastical Commission / 6th April - 1883."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Urging him not to postpone the meeting date for the Wordsworth Society; adding "It is not only my work in Court - but I am on the Commission...I have really not a moment to myself. It is quite out of the question my getting anything ready this side of the Long vacation - I am really very sorry but there is no help for it."
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