BIB_ID
406457
Accession number
MA 9110.19
Creator
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
Display Date
[1888?] December 8.
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.
Written on stationery embossed "35, Bryanston Square, W."
Bryce is quoting from the first two lines of Wordsworth's poem "London. 1802" in which Wordsworth refers to Milton.
Professor Knight published his first book on Wordsworth, "Selections on Wordsworth" in 1889.
Written on stationery embossed "35, Bryanston Square, W."
Bryce is quoting from the first two lines of Wordsworth's poem "London. 1802" in which Wordsworth refers to Milton.
Professor Knight published his first book on Wordsworth, "Selections on Wordsworth" in 1889.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Explaining in detail the academic requirements for a Doctor of Civil Law (D.C.L.); adding "I hope you will think out this matter of popularizing Scottish Univ's & give me your views before next Bill. Even more I hope you will popularize Wordsworth. W. 'Thou shoulds't be living at this hour / England hath need of thee'. Begin by a cheap edition."
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