BIB_ID
190524
Accession number
MA 9787.54
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1893 June 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 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 mourning stationery from the "Royal Courts of Justice" and embossed with a seal.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery from the "Royal Courts of Justice" and embossed with a seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the use of Wordsworth's rooms at St. John's College, Cambridge; saying "I am very sorry but I am the worst possible person to apply to as to Wordsworth's rooms at St. John's - I am not a Cambridge man & do not even know by sight the Master of that College - and the University has in a very pronounced fashion declined...to give me a degree when some of my friends proposed it - So it is impossible for me to do anything in a Cambridge matter - As to the other matter I will give you a letter to the Attorney General with great pleasure - But if Lord Bute were to ask for an interview it would be given at once as a matter of course;" saying he will be going to Oxford and then away until Monday morning.
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