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 a watermark consisting of a crown and the words "Embassy/ De La Rue & Co."
Written on stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Eddington,/ Lansdowne Road,/ Bournemouth."
Writing that he does not know the exact amount in the Arnold Memorial Fund, but that a fair estimate would be £6000, out of which Oxford received £1000 and the sculptor Albert Bruce-Joy also received a fee for his bust of Arnold; confessing that he does not know where he has put Richard Cobden's letters "but all the books are shortly going to be 'spring cleaned' & then perhaps we may find it"; sending news of his wife Ella's health.