BIB_ID
210167
Accession number
MA 9097.1
Creator
Brown, John Taylor, 1811-1901.
Display Date
1887 July 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 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.
Housed with 2nd letter from Brown to Knight dated March 11, 1888 (see MA 9097.2).
Written from "Gibraltar House, Edinburgh."
Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) published an article in the North British Review in 1863 titled "Pet Marjorie: a story of child life fifth years ago" which was later reprinted as a pamphlet.
Elizabeth Fleming was Marjorie Fleming's younger sister.
Housed with 2nd letter from Brown to Knight dated March 11, 1888 (see MA 9097.2).
Written from "Gibraltar House, Edinburgh."
Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) published an article in the North British Review in 1863 titled "Pet Marjorie: a story of child life fifth years ago" which was later reprinted as a pamphlet.
Elizabeth Fleming was Marjorie Fleming's younger sister.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Enclosing Sara Coleridge's copy of "Biographia;" referring to other books which belonged to Wordsworth and referring Knight to an article he published in 1864 which discusses them; telling him he had asked Isabella Brown, John Brown's sister, about "Pet Marjorie" as she knew the elder Miss Fleming but she could not tell him anything; adding that "It is stated in Dr. John Brown's papers that Marjorie's birth was 15th January 1803 and her death 19th Dec'br, 1811; quoting directly from an extract from the Scotsman of July 6, 1881 of the obituary of the elder Miss Fleming which includes a description of Walter Scott's frequent visits to the house to see Miss Fleming "...and her sister Marjorie or "Maidee" as he always called the latter, was an especial pet of Sir Walter's up to the time of her early death."
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