BIB_ID
190664
Accession number
MA 23528.3
Creator
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885.
Display Date
London, England, 188? July 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.1 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 from "1, Rutland Gardens, / Knightsbridge" on stationery engraved with the address.
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 from "1, Rutland Gardens, / Knightsbridge" on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he would like to see him before the meeting so that he might see the Transactions of the [Wordsworth] Society.
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