BIB_ID
416994
Accession number
MA 9787.58
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
England, undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; xx 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.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
This fragment is undated but the date range of the collection is from 1880-1894.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
This fragment is undated but the date range of the collection is from 1880-1894.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his frustration with the Wordsworth family as it relates to copyright issues; saying "Those Wordsworths or rather William Wordsworth make me out of charity with the family & half lead me to think the laws of copyright are evil - I shall say something of the sort from the chair next month."
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