BIB_ID
400818
Accession number
MA 8814.3
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1895 May 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 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: "T B & G/ London".
Written from Pains Hill Cottage.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
With a watermark: "T B & G/ London".
Written from Pains Hill Cottage.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking Knight if he could help her and her sister-in-law, Frances Lucy Arnold, find a letter that Matthew Arnold wrote to St. Andrews in 1877, in which he declined to stand for the Lord Rectorship of the university; explaining that this is in reference to an edition of Arnold's letters that is being prepared for publication.
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