BIB_ID
401540
Accession number
MA 8856.1-9
Creator
Smith, Florence Baird, 1827-1903.
Display Date
1887-1901.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
9 items (48 pages) ; 17.6 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.
Written on stationery engraved "81, Lexham Gardens, / Kensington, W."
Written on stationery engraved "81, Lexham Gardens, / Kensington, W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of nine autograph letters signed from Florence de Quincey Baird-Smith to Professor William Angus Knight primarily discussing her father's letters from William and Dorothy Wordsworth; comprising eight letters written between July 11, 1887 and March 16, 1901 and one letter undated. Letters in the collection have been described individually in nine separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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