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Autograph letter signed : London, to William Angus Knight, 1890 June 11.

BIB_ID
400638
Accession number
MA 8800.5
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1890 June 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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.
Written from "Argyll Lodge, Kensington."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he has been ill and "...unable to attend to my letters. I shall be happy to give my name to the Committee for preserving the Wordsworthian Cottage. But I have too many [illegible] claims upon me to [illegible] more than a small subscription."