BIB_ID
190623
Accession number
MA 23040.1
Creator
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
Display Date
London, England, 1889 September 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Written from "British Museum, / London : W.C." on its stationery.
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.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that in the course of writing an article for the DNB on a" little known poetess" named Catherine Grace Godwin, "...my inducement being the fact that her maiden name was Garnett. In the memoir preceding her collected poems is a letter from Wordsworth, which I have not been able to find notice of elsewhere. It is of considerable interest from Wordsworth's opinion of the Spenserian stanza in Byron's hands, and other topics, and I have much pleasure in sending you a copy."
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