BIB_ID
190505
Accession number
MA 9787.34
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1887 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.2 x 18.7 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 stationery embossed with the seal of the Athenæum Club and dated by Coleridge as "S. Peter's Day - 1887."
The Latin quoted in the summary is from Horace and translates to "Old age is besieged by discomforts."
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of the Athenæum Club and dated by Coleridge as "S. Peter's Day - 1887."
The Latin quoted in the summary is from Horace and translates to "Old age is besieged by discomforts."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure that Knight and Ernest Coleridge got on so well; saying "I am heartily glad that my cousin Ernest & you parted on amiable terms - He told me how pleasant & straightforward he had found you as I told him he would - I intensely concur in what you say is the true principle of such things & I have never been able to enter into the narrow & grasping view of copyright in letters & other things so many men have - William Wordsworth (the 2nd) pushed it to an almost ludicrous extreme - I shall look forward to your volume with the greatest interest & pleasure - I will with pleasure do all I can in the matter of J.C.S. - I hope to have a little time to myself this long vacation. Without it I cannot write. Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda; & not the least of these is an increasing [illegible] & fastidiousness in composition - When I was young I have often written an article as hard as I could write it with a man waiting below to take it to the office - It was bad enough most likely; but I could not do the thing at all now;" commenting on the death of [Theodore] Walrond as a "...very great loss to the public service & a still greater one to his friend."
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