BIB_ID
416996
Accession number
MA 9787.59
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
England, undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.8 x 18.1cm
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 Professor Knight quotes from it in the volume of Wordsworth poems cited below which was published in 1882. This collection of letters to Knight from Lord Coleridge begins in 1880.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
This fragment is undated but Professor Knight quotes from it in the volume of Wordsworth poems cited below which was published in 1882. This collection of letters to Knight from Lord Coleridge begins in 1880.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Relating an anecdote concerning the Rev. Connop Thirlwall and his recitation of a Wordsworth poem; saying "In the great Debate on the Abolition of the Irish Establishment in 1869 the Bishop of St. David's Dr. Thirlwall had made a very remarkable speech & had been kept till past daybreak in the House of Lords before the division was over & he was able to walk home - He was then an old man & in failing health - Some days after he was asked whether he had not run some risk to his health & whether he did not feel much exhausted. 'Yes he said' perhaps so; but I was more than repaid by walking out upon Westminster Bridge after the division, seeing London in the morning light - as Wordsworth saw it, & repeating to myself his noble sonnet as I walked home.' I do not pretend to give his words with accuracy - but I am sure of the fact - & of the substances of what he said."
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