BIB_ID
400930
Accession number
MA 8820.5
Creator
Arnold, Richard Penrose, 1855-1908.
Display Date
1904 February 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 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 health and treatment: "she is really better, as she can do so much more, but this beastly asthma does not go"; telling Knight about the letters by the politician Richard Cobden in his possession, in which Cobden writes about the free trade laws and "the future religious character in schools"; expressing his opinion that "at the next election the education bill will play a far more important part than the fiscal question."
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