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Autograph letter signed : [London], to William Angus Knight, undated.

BIB_ID
406134
Accession number
MA 9087.58
Creator
Brooke, Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus), 1832-1916.
Display Date
undated.
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.
Embossed letterhead: "1. Manchester Sq. / W." Brooke owned a house at this address in London from 1866 to 1914.
Most of the Brooke-Knight correspondence that concerns the prints Knight donated to Dove Cottage comes from 1897-1898, suggesting that this letter was also written during that period. See MA 9087.40 for a further discussion of the parcel sent to Knight at St. Andrews.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that he has sent him a parcel: "I have sent off to you at St. Andrews one parcel, containing two inside -- one in brown paper of the portraits I propose to frame & one or two other things -- the other parcel contains the views of places, statues, etc. connected with Wordsworth which I have already proposed to you should be put into a large book or album, well framed & with a description written underneath. There are a good many duplicates which would be of no use to the book -- duplicates of the portraits of the views, etc. etc. and as you wished, you said, to retain these & send them to America I send the whole of what you left with me that you may pick out those you wish to keep; & place the rest aside for the Dove Cottage album"; suggesting the wording for a slip of paper to be framed with each print, acknowledging them as the gift of Knight; instructing Knight to send the brown paper parcel to Dunthorne; adding that Dunthorne will then send Brooke a sample frame for him to approve, so that the same frame is used for all the prints; chiding Knight for an "impetuous" postcard: "You are evidently not aware of all that I have to do, & of how difficult it is to seclude an hour in the day for other labours than those which inevitably press on me & which (some of them) take me for three days in the week outside of London. I hope you are satisfied now. I had to put off matters like these W. W. prints, concerning which there is no hurry, for matters which had to be done without delay."