BIB_ID
405448
Accession number
MA 9052.3
Creator
Boyd, Alice, 1825-1897.
Display Date
1896 September 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.5 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.
Engraved letterhead: "Penkill Castle, / Girvan, / Ayrshire."
On mourning stationery.
Engraved letterhead: "Penkill Castle, / Girvan, / Ayrshire."
On mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that his visit brought her "great pleasure"; thanking him for his reciprocal invitation but writing that "I am so very old now & feel so far from amusing that I believe home is the best place for me"; inviting him to come again with his wife and daughter; adding that she hopes his voyage did him good and thanking him for his "missive 'from the Irish Sea.'"
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