BIB_ID
400804
Accession number
MA 8813.3
Creator
Arnold, Frances Lucy Wightman, 1825-1901.
Display Date
1895 May 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 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 volume of letters to which Frances Arnold refers was Volume I of "Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888, collected and arranged by George W.E. Russell", New York: Macmillan & Co., 1895.
Written on stationery from "Fairy Hill / Reynoldston / South Wales." The stationery is engraved "Pains Hill Cottage / Cobham, Surrey" but that has been crossed through.
The volume of letters to which Frances Arnold refers was Volume I of "Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888, collected and arranged by George W.E. Russell", New York: Macmillan & Co., 1895.
Written on stationery from "Fairy Hill / Reynoldston / South Wales." The stationery is engraved "Pains Hill Cottage / Cobham, Surrey" but that has been crossed through.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a letter from Matthew Arnold to Principal Shairp; apologizing for her delay in responding to his letter and explaining it was due to the death of a niece; referring to a letter published in the Leeds Mercury which she and her sister-in-law "...wished, if possible, to have the whole letter, in order to send it to Mr. Russell for insertion in the forthcoming volume of letters. The letter you mention addressed to Principal Shairp I am sure we shall be most glad to have, if Mrs. Shairp will be so very kind as to allow us to have it, or a copy of it?"
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