BIB_ID
400811
Accession number
MA 8814.2
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1893 November 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.7 x 10.2 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.
On mourning stationery.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
On mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Explaining that her source for information about the circumstances around the writing of the "Cambridge ode" was Dora Wordsworth (referred to as "Miss Quillinan"), information that she had passed on to Aubrey de Vere to assist him in the arrangement of Wordsworth's poems; praising de Vere for his devotion to Wordsworth; reminding Knight that she had copied passages about Wordsworth "from my Mother's letters which you inserted in the Life" and saying that she does not believe she has any more letters or papers that would be of use to him; writing that a "beautiful old Birch tree" outside Fox How that Wordworth had admired has come down in a hurricane.
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