BIB_ID
412015
Accession number
MA 9549.2
Creator
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905.
Display Date
1905 April 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.6 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.
On the stationery of the Imperial Hotel, Torquay.
Acquired with three other letters from Irving to Knight, two autograph (MA 9549.1-2) and two in unknown hands but signed by Irving (MA 9548.1-2). Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
On the stationery of the Imperial Hotel, Torquay.
Acquired with three other letters from Irving to Knight, two autograph (MA 9549.1-2) and two in unknown hands but signed by Irving (MA 9548.1-2). Each item has been described in an individual catalog record.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter; saying that he is beginning a short season at Drury Lane on the 29th: "The first two months will be Becket, & after that I shall give the Merchant of Venice & some others"; saying that his illness has caused his American tour to be postponed until 1906-1907.
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