BIB_ID
406133
Accession number
MA 9087.57
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Clifton Down Hotel." Clifton Down is located in Bristol.
Based on the subjects discussed and the place of writing, this letter may have immediately followed MA 9087.56. Like MA 9087.56, it is likely to have been written in 1897-1898.
Brooke's book on Tennyson, mentioned in the letter, was first published in 1894 by Isbister & Co. with the title "Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life."
Brooke gives the place of writing as "Clifton Down Hotel." Clifton Down is located in Bristol.
Based on the subjects discussed and the place of writing, this letter may have immediately followed MA 9087.56. Like MA 9087.56, it is likely to have been written in 1897-1898.
Brooke's book on Tennyson, mentioned in the letter, was first published in 1894 by Isbister & Co. with the title "Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the framing of the prints: "I am very sorry about the Prints etc., but I have been over-hurried, & could not manage to get them ready for Dunthorne. When I get back this week (for this is Sunday 28th) I will go over them, divide them up & send them in divisions to you. Those for framing & those for the book you will return, if it so please you, & the unused duplicates & other matters you will keep"; writing that he cannot commit to lecture at St. Andrews in February: "I shall have done enough talking in Scotland by that time & shall long for a little wise silence"; telling him that Isbister & Co. are the publishers of his book on Tennyson and that Knight should be able to get it from any bookseller in St. Andrews.
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