BIB_ID
401067
Accession number
MA 8829.5
Creator
Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 1827-1903.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 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.
Embossed letterhead: "Melchet Court,/ Romsey,/ Hants."
With a watermark: "The/ Elizabeth/ Note".
Embossed letterhead: "Melchet Court,/ Romsey,/ Hants."
With a watermark: "The/ Elizabeth/ Note".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for a present, "a precious addition to my Library"; writing that her daughter is currently with her, "my sole companion during my long long 30 years of widowhood--we are very close"; sending news of Lord Houghton and others; writing of how grateful she is to have met Knight: "my memories of all my intercourse with you are delightful"; referring to a "Dr. Erskine" who was "for many years like a father [illegible word] to me".
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