BIB_ID
190662
Accession number
MA 23528.4
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.
Display Date
London, England, 188? June 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 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.
One of seven letters from Lord Houghton to Professor Knight (MA 23528.1-7). Only two of the letters provide a year of writing, one is clearly 1885 and the other possibly 1886. All of the letters appear to concern the Wordsworth Society and several concern the President's Address to the Society which Lord Houghton delivered on July 8, 1885. The Wordsworth Society was formed in 1880 and continued through 1886.
Written on mourning stationery from "9. Wilton Crescent."
One of seven letters from Lord Houghton to Professor Knight (MA 23528.1-7). Only two of the letters provide a year of writing, one is clearly 1885 and the other possibly 1886. All of the letters appear to concern the Wordsworth Society and several concern the President's Address to the Society which Lord Houghton delivered on July 8, 1885. The Wordsworth Society was formed in 1880 and continued through 1886.
Written on mourning stationery from "9. Wilton Crescent."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying "I certainly have a few of Mr. Dobell's letters but they are so carefully put by that I do not know where to get my hands on them...As far as I remember they relate to usual circumstances & not to any matters of literary interest."
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