BIB_ID
400862
Accession number
MA 8814.10
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1903 June 14.
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."
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
Alerting Knight that she is forwarding his letter to her nephew, Richard Penrose Arnold, and giving Knight his address; mentioning that both her nephew and his wife, Ella, have been in very poor health, because of which Richard has had to resign his Inspectorship of Factories and Ella (who has malarial fever) has had to go into a nursing home in London; responding to a query of Knight's and telling him that the quotation he asked about is from Matthew Arnold's poem "Westminster Abbey, July 25, 1881, The Day of Burial in the Abbey of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley"; commenting that she thinks Arnold's later poems are "amongst the best things he has written"; writing that it has been a "trying winter" and she has not been to Grasmere for months, "But when I go next I shall be much interested in seeing the Bust"; mentioning that Gordon Wordsworth has gone to visit his brother in Ireland.
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