BIB_ID
400885
Accession number
MA 8814.14
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
[1895] May 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.5 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.
There is no year given on the letter but it appears to follow an earlier letter dated May 18, 1895, which concerns this same subject and is written from the same location. See MA 8814.3 for this letter.
Written from Pains Hill Cottage.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
There is no year given on the letter but it appears to follow an earlier letter dated May 18, 1895, which concerns this same subject and is written from the same location. See MA 8814.3 for this letter.
Written from Pains Hill Cottage.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for his willingness to help her and her "sister" (perhaps her sister-in-law, Frances Lucy Arnold) find a letter that Matthew Arnold wrote to St. Andrews; explaining that Arnold did not keep letters and it was only because of a reference to this letter in the newspaper the Leeds Mercury that they became aware of it and decided that they would like to see the whole of it; thanking Knight for inviting her to visit him at St. Andrews but explaining that it is unlikely she will travel to Scotland again; sending news of the travels and health of her nephew and his wife (most likely, Richard and Ella Arnold).
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