BIB_ID
405614
Accession number
MA 9062.8
Creator
Bradley, George Granville, 1821-1903.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] April 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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 "Deanery", referring to the Deanery at Westminster Abbey.
On mourning stationery.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "Deanery", referring to the Deanery at Westminster Abbey.
On mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that the Chamber won't hold more than a hundred people, but that 150 could fit into the College Hall; writing that he will be glad to belong the Society (probably the Wordsworth Society), as will "Rev. J[ohn] Troutbeck a native of those parts who knows the Country & the Poems well"; concluding "Just going away for some rest after losing a very dear brother."
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