BIB_ID
190491
Accession number
MA 9787.20
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1884 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.4 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 embossed with his crest from "1 Sussex Square W."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery embossed with his crest from "1 Sussex Square W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his delight at the discovery of a Wordsworth manuscripts; saying "I wish you had got at them earlier but better late than never - as to the next chairman & the programme for Lambeth nothing can be better - You must not expect my paper - At any time it would be next to impossible for me to do it - but now I am in great family trouble & sorrow which when I am out of court prevents my [illegible] to anything;" commenting on a paper of Knight's that he will refer to the Law Institution which appears to relate to an exemption to be allowed for former students of Professor Knight at St. Andrews.
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