BIB_ID
190523
Accession number
MA 9787.53
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
Ottery Saint Mary, England, 1892 October 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.6 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 "Heath's Court, / Ottery S. Mary, / Devon" on stationery engraved with his crest and printed with his address.
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 his crest and printed with his address.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending him the note he requested and adding "You will find the Attorney General a very able & a very kind & good man. I will see what can be done as to the Athenæum when we come to London which will be done in a few days - The Committee of the Athenæum & its ways are fast fading out."
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