BIB_ID
400645
Accession number
MA 8800.7
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1893 January 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 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 on mourning stationery engraved "Inveraray."
Written on mourning stationery engraved "Inveraray."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing Tennyson and an elegy Argyll wrote to his memory; expressing appreciation for the kind words on his verses; saying "I was half incited to write the lines by the wretched stuff I saw published about him...by all except - Watson - I quite agree with you in this exception 'The Lacrymae Musarum' is beautiful in several ways. But the others are not only poor - but worse - they are Pagan generally - giving no idea or even hint of the religious & ethical character of the Laureates Life & Works. I was greatly pleased to find that his widow and his son both liked them very much. I wonder, by the bye, whether my readers generally understand the last words 'a tender spiritual face'. I thought they w'd guess - but I find few do so - rightly. These were words used by Tennyson to me when speaking of his own Wife a few years ago. They are most true & descriptive of an admirable woman"
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