BIB_ID
400858
Accession number
MA 8814.9
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1902 April 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 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/ Ivory Laid".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside."
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
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
Thanking Knight for his letter and the catalogues he had sent; sending good wishes for his trip abroad: "[I] shall like to think of you as reading Empedocles at Taormina"; mentioning that she thinks that Aubrey de Vere's letters to Isabella Fenwick have been found amongst his papers.
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