BIB_ID
190501
Accession number
MA 9787.30
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 February 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.2 x 16.4 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.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written from 1 Sussex Square W.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning Wordsworth's translations of Michaelangelo and Thomas Warton; saying "I am very sorry I troubled you - After your letter there is no more to be said - But the Index of first lines does not contain Come gentle sleep - or Grateful is sleep - and the other volumes are in Devonshire. I do not for a moment doubt what you say - only I [illegible] to explain why I thought as I did;" adding, in a postscript, "I see I am wrong as to 'Grateful is sleep' which is in the Index of first lines - but I do not find the two poems referred to in the other Indexes - Come gentle sleep does not appear anywhere - or any allusion to Warton - at least that I can find."
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