BIB_ID
400810
Accession number
MA 8814.1
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1881 June 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
With a watermark.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
With a watermark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Accepting Knight's invitation to join the Wordsworth Society; informing Knight that she has autograph manuscripts of Wordsworth's Sonnets to "Wansfell", inscribed to "his dear friend M. Arnold"; writing that the manuscript of the poem that begins "While beams of orient light" is "specially interesting as being much interlined & having many erasures and corrections."
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