BIB_ID
376839
Accession number
MA 1022.1
Creator
Shorthouse, J. H. (Joseph Henry), 1834-1903.
Display Date
1880 Dec. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 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 Shorthouse's autograph manuscript of John Inglesant and three additional autograph letters to Knight; see MA 1022 and MA 1022.1-4.
Written on mourning stationery with "Landsdowne, Edgbaston" letterhead.
Housed with Shorthouse's autograph manuscript of John Inglesant and three additional autograph letters to Knight; see MA 1022 and MA 1022.1-4.
Written on mourning stationery with "Landsdowne, Edgbaston" letterhead.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending him "a volume of Philosophical Romance [his novel, John Inglesant] of which work [he has] printed a few copies, mostly for private circulation" and a review of the novel from the Athenaeum; suggesting that Professor Mickle John might also like to look at the book; discussing [William] Wordsworth.
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