BIB_ID
405525
Accession number
MA 9053.11
Creator
Boyle, G. D. (George David), 1828-1901.
Display Date
1890 June 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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 mourning stationery from the "Deanery. Salisbury."
Rev. Stopford Brooke published a pamphlet titled 'Dove Cottage" to outline the fundraising efforts being begun to purchase Dove Cottage.
Written on mourning stationery from the "Deanery. Salisbury."
Rev. Stopford Brooke published a pamphlet titled 'Dove Cottage" to outline the fundraising efforts being begun to purchase Dove Cottage.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the fundraising effort to purchase Dove Cottage; saying "I intended to write to you or S. Brooke to say how I enjoyed his pamphlet and was ready to give my £5 to so good an object - I will gladly be one of the Com'te. It will be something to save such a relic of the noble days of plain living & high thought. The only time I saw Dorothy Wordsworth in 1847 she was quite past all recollection in a bath chair in the grounds of Rydal Mount;" saying that he hopes he will let them know when he might be near them as he is always welcome; adding "The cuckoo is sounding his farewell notes over the river and the larks are very happy over the Lawn which is 'en place' clad in milk-wort, a most tender shade of blue;" asking, in a postscript, "Who wrote the Browning article in Quarterly & Swinburne one in Edinburgh? both well worth reading. What a change in opinion 40 years have made!"
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