BIB_ID
400865
Accession number
MA 8814.11
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1904 March 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 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
Thanking Knight for sending her quotations from Wordsworth's letters; correcting a mistake in his dating; asking if he has seen the recently published first volume of a series called "The King's Poets", containing the Prelude; commenting on Richard and Ella Arnold's travels and health; mentioning that they have had "very wintry weather" and "there was ice yesterday over a great part of Rydal Lake!".
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