BIB_ID
400928
Accession number
MA 8820.4
Creator
Arnold, Richard Penrose, 1855-1908.
Display Date
1903 November 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.2 x 10.1 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 "Windham Club,/ St. James's Square,/ S.W."
Richard Penrose Arnold was the third son of Matthew Arnold.
With part of a watermark.
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Windham Club,/ St. James's Square,/ S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending news of his wife Ella's continued ill health: "the attacks of asthma have of late almost ceased, but the violent attacks of coughing still continue, especially so in the early morning"; writing that they hope to return to Bournemouth in the next few weeks, though they are also trying to let their house there since they may have to return to London; thanking Knight for the information he had sent about traveling to Egypt--"your tour certainly sounded a very attractive one"--though "I fear that, for us, Egypt is out of the question".
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