BIB_ID
406217
Accession number
MA 9106.1
Creator
Browning, Robert Wiedemann Barrett, 1849-1912.
Display Date
1897 February 15.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for the delay in his response to Knight's letter; referring Knight to Smith, Elder, and Co. to discuss a selection of Robert Browning's poems that Knight has proposed assembling and publishing: "I should like to say that I am acting according to my father's agreement with them, to which he strictly adhered himself and which I feel bound to follow. I need not add that I am sure a selection would be full of interest if made by such hands as yours"; thanking Knight for his invitation and tendering one in return: "On the other hand, should you come to this part of Italy and we were here or in Venice, (Palazzo Rezzonico) please remember what pleasure a visit from you would give my aunt as well as myself."
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