BIB_ID
417498
Accession number
MA 9819.3
Creator
Northampton, William Compton, Marquess of, 1851-1913.
Display Date
Castle Ashby, England, 1904 April 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.0 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 mourning stationery engraved with his monogram and "Castle Ashby, / Northampton."
Part of a small collection of three letters to Professor William Angus Knight. See also MA 9819.1 and MA 9819.2.
Written on mourning stationery engraved with his monogram and "Castle Ashby, / Northampton."
Part of a small collection of three letters to Professor William Angus Knight. See also MA 9819.1 and MA 9819.2.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for having not answered his letter; saying "You will have thought it very odd that I never answered your letter, but I have been so much on the move with all my meetings all over England that I have really had no time for anything. When your letter came I was away, & then I hoped afterwards to find a spare moment but it never came."
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