BIB_ID
191631
Accession number
MA 9787.46
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
London, England, 1888 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery embossed "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S.W."
The remainder of the letter following the 4th page is missing.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on mourning stationery embossed "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S.W."
The remainder of the letter following the 4th page is missing.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for his "kind and friendly letter - You shall certainly have as good a photograph as we have of Lady Coleridge & engraving of my own head from a drawing by my past wife, which I think is a beautiful piece of work (I know nothing as to the likeness) & has at least that merit but it is a private plate & cannot be purchased - I am in the middle of your Preface which I hope to finish tonight & send to you by Monday's post - Nothing can be better or kinder & I have little or nothing to suggest - Your notions of biography and biographers are entirely mine; & I know you act upon them as few - very few - men do. I am looking forward to Shairp & to Wordsworth too with great delight. As to the Wordsworth country I took 3 copies of it & kept one which is at Heath's Court & stands side by side with the large paper copy of your Wordsworth - in which I permitted myself to indulge - But I will honestly confess that I did not mean that book to leave Heath's Court after my death - Lady Coleridge has a copy of your Wordsworth, & if you really like to be so munificent as to give her of that beautiful book illustrating [illegible] I am quite sure you could not give her anything she will value more. I hope you will not be vexed with me if I persist in giving the public a prelibation of my contribution to your literary feast through the paper of Macmillan - I am quite sure it will do your book no harm - very much the reverse - & I will take care to say a word about it either at the beginning or end as the shape of a note;" mentioning his relationship to Shairp and Fanshawe, saying "Fanshawe & Shairp & I were the interlocutors &...;" the remainder of the letter is missing.
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