BIB_ID
417530
Accession number
MA 9825.5
Creator
Congreve, Richard, 1818-1899.
Display Date
Bolney, England, 1886 July 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.6 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." Above this, Congreve has added "Rycroft Bolney Sussex."
On stationery with green embossed letterhead: "55, Palace Gardens Terrace, / London, W." Above this, Congreve has added "Rycroft Bolney Sussex."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Enclosing a postal order (no longer with the letter) to pay for the back numbers of the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society; telling Knight "I wish I had made myself known to you, but I saw you had plenty to do & to speak to. I regret it because I could have explained to you that I had no paper written to give you;" saying that writing grows increasingly difficult for him as he grows older: "in fact it is only under great pressure that I do so. And then I feel it is so much better that we should all read Wordsworth than read about him;" adding that it would give him great pleasure to make Knight's acquaintance and that he is always in London during the winter months; concluding "My sister is in the Wordsworth country at Hawkshead & has often spoken to me of meeting you."
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