BIB_ID
190632
Accession number
MA 23040.10
Creator
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906.
Display Date
London, England, 1899-1905? October 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The year of writing is not provided however Garnett moved to Tanza Road in April 1899 and he died on April 13, 1906.
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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Agreeing to meet him at the Museum but also suggesting that he come to him in Hampstead; adding "The idea you have conceived is admirable in the abstract, but bent by formidable practical difficulties, which are no doubt as apparent to you as to me."
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