BIB_ID
211591
Accession number
MA 9408.1-10
Creator
Coleridge, Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford, Lady, d. 1933
Display Date
1888-1900.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
10 items (36 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 10 autograph letters signed, to William Angus Knight, written between 1888 and 1900 and possibly in other years, from London, Ottery St. Mary, Durham and Saint Andrews (Scotland); thanking Knight for books he has sent her and arranging meetings with him, assisting Knight with research for new books in progress, discussing the lives and work of John Henry Newman, Thomas Gray and William Wordsworth, and managing her husband John Coleridge's legacy after his death, including responding to accusations made by the sons from his first marriage, Bernard and Stephen Coleridge. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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