Letter from Richard Garnett, London, to William Angus Knight, 1899 August 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling him that W. C. Hazlitt's life of his grandfather is out of print and would have to be obtained through a secondhand bookseller; recommending two booksellers in Edinburgh; commenting on a Wordsworth letter saying it "...is probably in response to an application for information respecting Hazlitt, and if so must be very brief. I should think Mr. W.C. Hazlitt would make no objection to supplying a complete copy, if he has it, but he might ask whether you proposed to publish a letter from Wordsworth about his father in 'Hayden's Table Talk'. Perhaps, even if he said nothing, you might be of opinion that this letter is best left where it is. His address is Barnes Common, London, S.W. I am frequently in the Reading Room and much regret having missed you when you inquired for me. I have been there to-day, and have asked whether the Museum has any letters or papers of Lord Monboddo's, and find that it has not. I think it is in Hogg's Life of Shelley that I have read an animated panegyric upon Monboddo. There is as no doubt you are aware, a very appreciative article upon him in the Dictionary of National Biography. Probably the auctioneer's catalogues of late years contain abstracts of many unpublished letters of Wordsworth's."