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Letter from Aubrey de Vere, Bournemouth, to William Angus Knight, 188 August 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
190564
Accession number
MA 22706.21
Creator
De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902.
Display Date
Bournemouth, England, 1886 August 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.9 x 10.1 cm
Notes
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Written from "Heathfield Lodge / Bournemouth."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking for a revised correction to his proof; expressing his disappointment at seeing so little of him in London; asking when his Life of Wordsworth and the complete edition of his works will be out; asking if will include the "two Books of the second Part of the great projected poem of which the "Excursion" was the first part? He wrote them, I think, when about 62 years old & when he was in full poetic form."