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Letter from E.H. Cradock, St. Leonards on Sea, to William Angus Knight, 1877 December 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
418226
Accession number
MA 9909.1
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
St. Leonards-on-Sea, England, 1877 December 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.2 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.
Written on the stationery of Brasenose College, Oxford, however, the College has been crossed through and "70 Marina, St. Leonards on Sea" written above it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the possibility of a book on the Lake District and the poetry of Wordsworth; saying "The Bishop of Lincoln [Christopher Wordsworth] keeps jogging my memory about the project of placing on record localities connected with his uncle's poems. I have done nothing and have not communicated with Principal Shairp on the subject. It occurs to me however to ask, why should not you do something of the kind? You have been working up details in the Lake country and probably know more of the matter than Shairp does - Your practice in writing would make it easy for you to do the literary parts of the works which need not be very extensive - and I would [illegible] supply all the local information which I possess, or may be able to gain from old people still surviving. I have done nothing in prose writing (except [illegible] & sermons) and can be of no use in that line - but I would do whatever I can. The Bishop is rather keen & would certainly obtain any assistance required from his family, as to copyright &c. If you take to the idea, I will state to you more fully my [illegible] of what should be done."