BIB_ID
400832
Accession number
MA 8814.7
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1901 August 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
On mourning stationery.
With a watermark: "Parkins & Gotto's/ Ivory Laid".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside."
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
On mourning stationery.
With a watermark: "Parkins & Gotto's/ Ivory Laid".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a photograph, taken by Herbert Bell, of a portrait of her father, to be displayed in Dove Cottage: "My father & mother knew & loved Wordsworth so well and so truly that I am sure it is appropriate that my father's portrait should be there amongst his other friends."
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