BIB_ID
190499
Accession number
MA 9787.28
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
Ottery Saint Mary, England, 1886 January 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.5 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, / Devon" on stationery engraved with the address and a crest.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from "Heath's Court, / Ottery S. Mary, / Devon" on stationery engraved with the address and a crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the Bishop of London and Tennyson; saying "I think the Bishop of London would be excellent - but at this moment I would rather not trouble him on the subject - Tennyson I am sorry to say I hardly know to speak to, & I should be a bad person to approach him."
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