BIB_ID
399882
Accession number
MA 8742.7
Creator
Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.9 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.
No identification of the recipient except a penciled note at the bottom of the letter indicating that it was part of the Knight collection.
Written on stationery with the letterhead "Scores Park,/ St. Andrews."
No identification of the recipient except a penciled note at the bottom of the letter indicating that it was part of the Knight collection.
Written on stationery with the letterhead "Scores Park,/ St. Andrews."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Recounting that he had asked "Lord W" about some lines, and that the lord "finally admitted that they emanated from 'an obscure poet'!".
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