BIB_ID
417526
Accession number
MA 9825.4
Creator
Congreve, Richard, 1818-1899.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 July 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.5 x 10.2 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: "55, Palace Gardens Terrace, / London, W."
On stationery with green embossed letterhead: "55, Palace Gardens Terrace, / London, W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing "I wish I could subscribe to your edition of Wordsworth which proceeds on the only sound principle - the chronological;" mentioning that he finds he is missing some of the earlier numbers of the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society and asking if Knight could send them to him: "I would enclose the money for them did I know what it was. I should wish to complete my set;" commenting on a speech: "When I heard Lord Selborne's speech - which was really very good - I felt that I was well out of my [paper?]. Why should not the non-Christian be as free to profess his belief in such a meeting as the Christian. Yet clearly my expression would have greatly scandalized your meeting."
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