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Autograph letter signed : Fox How, Ambleside, to William Angus Knight, 1902 April 8.

BIB_ID
400833
Accession number
MA 8814.8
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1902 April 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 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: "Parkins & Gotto's/ 'Government'/ Note".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking Knight if he knows of the existence of any letters between Aubrey de Vere and Isabella Fenwick which De Vere's family might make use of in memorials to be written about him; explaining that it is her niece, Florence Vere O'Brien, who has asked about the letters and that she hopes for a response urgently, "before the 12th of this month."