BIB_ID
400057
Accession number
MA 8762.6
Creator
Airlie, Henrietta Blanche, Countess of, 1830-1921.
Display Date
[1895?] May 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.5 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.
The year of writing is not given but Tollemache published "Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Jowett: Reminiscences of the late Master of Balliol" in the May 1895 issue of the Journal of Education.
Written from "4 Lowndes Square" on mourning stationery engraved with her initials.
The year of writing is not given but Tollemache published "Wit and Wisdom of Dr. Jowett: Reminiscences of the late Master of Balliol" in the May 1895 issue of the Journal of Education.
Written from "4 Lowndes Square" on mourning stationery engraved with her initials.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Regretting that she and her daughter are unable to accept his invitation to the Royal Society as the date is "too far off to be sure of being in town;" adding that she has "...not seen L. Tollemache's Reminiscences. I see some criticism on them to the effect that Jowett was not witty. They write too much about popular men. It needs genius to present the semblance of such a character to the world - & it cannot be done by detached little jokes & conversations. It is all 'copy'."
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