BIB_ID
410512
Accession number
MA 9408.10
Creator
Coleridge, Amy Augusta Jackson Lawford, Lady, d. 1933.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] November 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Lady Coleridge gives the place of writing as "The Castle / Durham."
Though no year of writing is given on the letter, based on its contents it was certainly written after her marriage to John Coleridge in 1885 (she signs herself "Amy A.J. Coleridge") and before Lord Coleridge's death in 1894.
Lady Coleridge gives the place of writing as "The Castle / Durham."
Though no year of writing is given on the letter, based on its contents it was certainly written after her marriage to John Coleridge in 1885 (she signs herself "Amy A.J. Coleridge") and before Lord Coleridge's death in 1894.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for having his publisher send her one of his books: "I think it is so kind of you to give me your book, & I shall read it with double interest now that I have the pleasure of knowing you. Chief [her husband, John Coleridge] gave me your edition of Wordsworth a long time ago, so I have quite a collection of your works"; thanking him for "patronizing our blind basket maker"; giving him information about where to purchase various chairs, including "the basket work long chairs that Canon Ainger admired"; adding "The basket maker lives at Fairmile, Ottery S. Mary but I am ashamed to say I do not know his name -- but [Nuston], our bailiff will be only too glad to attend to any orders you may send him"; commenting on the beauty of Durham Cathedral; promising to send Knight's "kind message" on to her brother.
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