Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : London, to William Angus Knight, 1883 March 24.

BIB_ID
405597
Accession number
MA 9062.1
Creator
Bradley, George Granville, 1821-1903.
Display Date
1883 March 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.4 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.
Embossed letterhead: "Deanery, / Westminster, / S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing that Knight "can be no stranger to any reader of Wordsworth" and that he would be delighted to offer the Chamber for the meeting of the Wordsworth Society: "it is by [rule] only used for religious or Charitable purposes -- but I have no scruple"; explaining that the "Chapter House is not ours to give -- & it is the most difficult of places to speak or hear in"; offering dates in May when the Chamber will be available.