BIB_ID
400925
Accession number
MA 8820.3
Creator
Arnold, Richard Penrose, 1855-1908.
Display Date
1903 April 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.4 x 10.3 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.
Richard Penrose Arnold was the third son of Matthew Arnold.
With part of a watermark.
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Eastbourne Lodge,/ Worcester." This has been crossed out and replaced with "Eddington, Landsdowne Rd., Bournemouth."
Richard Penrose Arnold was the third son of Matthew Arnold.
With part of a watermark.
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Eastbourne Lodge,/ Worcester." This has been crossed out and replaced with "Eddington, Landsdowne Rd., Bournemouth."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending news of his and his wife's ill health and its consequences: "I resigned last year: since then I am better, but Mrs. Arnold still keeps ill, indeed she is in a nursing home in London now"; identifying a line for Knight as being from Matthew Arnold's poem "Westminster Abbey", "which personally I think is one of his very best"; writing of Bournemouth that "we find this a very nice place and I expect we shall settle down here"; inviting Knight to Bournemouth and promising him a "first rate golf course".
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