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.
The year of writing is not given however she refers to her son being eight years old. Her son was born in 1881 so it is possible this letter was written in 1889.
Written on stationery engraved "Swannington House, / Leicester."
Apologizing that it has taken her so long to thank him for the last three volumes of Wordsworth's Life & Works; saying "It is a beautiful work & most complete & I am so very glad to possess it, & shall always prize it - doubly as having been given to me by you;" expressing her wish that if he is "in this neighbourhood you will come & see us. It was a great change at first to come to this little house after dear Cole Orton - but we have made it really pretty now - & the garden is always a very great pleasure & interest to me. My little boy has now gone to a clergyman who takes 2 or 3 little boys - to prepare them for school. As he was only eight yrs old he was too young to send straight to a Preparatory School & he was getting rather beyond home management & wanted companionship badly. I want very much to send him to Winchester [illegible]; his grandfather was there & I'd far rather he went to Winchester than Eton."