BIB_ID
190494
Accession number
MA 9787.23
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1884 November 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.4 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 and from the "Royal Courts of Justice."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery embossed with his crest and from the "Royal Courts of Justice."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the right to publish the letters; saying he has not received the proof and suggesting that he does not believe the letters are "...of sufficient importance to exercise proprietary rights...It is curious to a lawyer to see that with non legal minds the right to keep should seem to imply the right to publish, which to a legal mind are very different things indeed, & by no means involve the one the other - But as I told you the law has been clear & settled since the time of Pope - If you will let me see these letters however I will do my best for you - for I see the difficulties in which you are placed - For you I have every sympathy - I am afraid I have not quite the same for Mr. Knowles who I really believe would publish [illegible] hesitation the conversation between Michael & the Almighty if he could get it. Thank you very much for your kind words - Just now as the London papers will show you it is peculiarly grateful to me."
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