BIB_ID
190496
Accession number
MA 9787.25
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
Ottery Saint Mary, England, 1885 April 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.0 x 16.8 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 - Easter Day. 1885."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from "Heath's Court, Ottery S. Mary - Easter Day. 1885."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a paper he agreed to write and a Southey inscription; saying "If I possibly can I will do that paper. I should like to do it & having said I would I do not like to break my vow - But my life is one endless worry day by day from a court action in which I am Defendant & my own daughter is the real Plaintiff - and I have not the self control to settle to any thing except the necessary duties of the day - as to the Southey inscription the book is in London - at least I believe so - & when I go back there in a few days I will have it looked out - & the inscription copied - The letters to my father concerning it were interesting as showing the extreme care Wordsworth took with all his writing to have the substance & the expression also as perfect as he could make it."
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