BIB_ID
400881
Accession number
MA 8814.13
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
undated [1881-1893] "Easter Eve".
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.
Letter is undated but it must have been written after Frances Arnold joined the Wordsworth Society (referred to in a letter from June 2, 1881; see MA 8814.1) and before she copied passages about the Wordworths from her mother's letters for Professor Knight (referred to a letter from November 18, 1893; see MA 8814.2).
With a watermark: "T & G H/ Kent".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside"; this has been crossed out and replaced with "12. Florence Place. Falmouth".
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
Letter is undated but it must have been written after Frances Arnold joined the Wordsworth Society (referred to in a letter from June 2, 1881; see MA 8814.1) and before she copied passages about the Wordworths from her mother's letters for Professor Knight (referred to a letter from November 18, 1893; see MA 8814.2).
With a watermark: "T & G H/ Kent".
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Fox How, Ambleside"; this has been crossed out and replaced with "12. Florence Place. Falmouth".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Promising to copy passages about the Wordsworths from her mother's letters for Knight; writing that she hopes to attend the Wordsworth Meeting in London and that she is sorry "Lord Coleridge's paper is again not ready for us!"; mentioning that "Miss Ford" has arrived in England and that she has had "very happy accounts of the meeting, and of her introduction to my brother and his family, who are all charmed with her".
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