BIB_ID
190495
Accession number
MA 9787.24
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1884 November 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 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 from "1 Sussex Square W" on stationery embossed with his crest.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from "1 Sussex Square W" on stationery embossed with his crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning continuing difficulties in publishing the Coleridge letters; saying "I am not at all without hope that my cousins may see their way to allowing of the publication of the letters of S.T.C. But they are poor & I can say what they could not that while they have no question for a mere nominal acknowledgement - of their right -, to allow of the publication in a book - they do not quite see why Mr. Knowles or any one else should make a profit out of their property in a mere catchpenny magazine which only spoils the market - & does not enshrine or really preserve, in a literary sense, the author - I am myself very anxious personally to see S.T.C. in such noble company; & I think a Coleorton volume is sure to be full of interest. I care much less or not at all about Mr. Knowles & his magazine - you will think he is my bête noir - I think he is;" adding, in a postscript, that he will let him know as soon as he learns anything from his cousins.
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