BIB_ID
410392
Accession number
MA 9397.11
Creator
Cochran-Patrick, Robert William, 1842-1897.
Display Date
1896 December 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.0 x11.4 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.
Written on stationery engraved "Woodside / Beith, N.B."
Sir Herbert Maxwell's novel "A Duke of Britain : A Romance of the Fourth Century" was published by William Blackwood & Sons in 1895.
Written on stationery engraved "Woodside / Beith, N.B."
Sir Herbert Maxwell's novel "A Duke of Britain : A Romance of the Fourth Century" was published by William Blackwood & Sons in 1895.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying "I was very glad to receive yr letter this morning & to find that such a good judge as yourself held the same view as I do of the 'Duke of Britain." I am sure Maxwell will be very much pleased."
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