BIB_ID
190629
Accession number
MA 23040.7
Creator
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
Display Date
London, England, 1905 March 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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
Saying he cannot answer his questions about Scott without going to the Museum but he cannot due to "...a temporary lameness. I should greatly doubt the authenticity of the poem. As to the mottos you can hardly go wrong if you compare those prefixed to the chapters of the novels with any edition of the poetical works you may be using. I suppose we can hardly go wrong if we consider all the anonymous ones, and all those professedly derived from an 'old play' as original. I see that there is an article on Scott's poetry by Goldwin Smith in the current Atlantic Monthly, which seems important."
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