BIB_ID
190627
Accession number
MA 23040.5
Creator
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
Display Date
London, England, 1900 February 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Written from "27 Tanza Road, / Hampstead."
Written from "27 Tanza Road, / Hampstead."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a possible gift of letters by Knight to the British Museum; saying "I never was Keeper of the Manuscript Department, but I am sure that the letters would be very welcome there on the conditions you propose;" suggesting he write to the Director of the Museum, Sir Edward Maunde Thompson and explain in his letter "...how you came to have a right of property in the letters. I am not quite sure whether the Trustees will act merely on your representation, or whether they will require to have the letters before them, but of this Sir Edward will inform you;" expressing interest in Knight's book on Lord Monboddo, and quoting from Hogg's Life of Shelley on Monboddo.
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