BIB_ID
268472
Accession number
MA 8750
Creator
Adams, Mildred Mary Coleridge, d. 1929.
Display Date
1882 November 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Mildred Mary Coleridge married Charles Warren Adams in 1885.
The address given at the top of the letter is 1 Sussex Square, the home of John Duke Coleridge in London.
Mildred Mary Coleridge married Charles Warren Adams in 1885.
The address given at the top of the letter is 1 Sussex Square, the home of John Duke Coleridge in London.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing the health of her father, the Lord Chief Justice; commenting on the poem "The White Doe of Rylstone" by Wordsworth, "[t]he opening Canto has always seemed to me the most perfect bit of metre in Wordsworth."
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