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Letter from Richard Congreve, London, to William Angus Knight, 1886 February 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
417518
Accession number
MA 9825.2
Creator
Congreve, Richard, 1818-1899.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 February 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18 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.
On stationery with green embossed letterhead: "57, Palace Gardens Terrace, / London, W." The house number has been corrected by hand to "55."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that he is very busy; asking for a month to think the matter over and promising to write the first week of March and let Knight know definitively whether or not he would like to proceed: "I shall by that time see my way more clearly."