BIB_ID
405586
Accession number
MA 9061.5
Creator
Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil), 1851-1935.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] August 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.5 x 10 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.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "Cliff House / Seaton / S. Devon."
Based on internal evidence, this letter may have been written in 1889, when Bradley accepted the position of Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "Cliff House / Seaton / S. Devon."
Based on internal evidence, this letter may have been written in 1889, when Bradley accepted the position of Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for his "kind words of congratulations and welcome"; recalling, "with gratitude," a visit Knight made to Liverpool; concluding "I shall look forward with great pleasure to the chance of our meetings in Scotland...".
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