BIB_ID
418239
Accession number
MA 9909.5
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
England, 1877.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 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.
This fragment of a letter is undated however, Cradock references statements he made in previous letters, of which we have only fragments, MA 9909.3 and MA 9909.4. Knight quotes from those notes in his book, "The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth", published in late 1878 in which attributes the quotes to Dr. Cradock, 1877.
Written on mourning stationery.
This fragment of a letter is undated however, Cradock references statements he made in previous letters, of which we have only fragments, MA 9909.3 and MA 9909.4. Knight quotes from those notes in his book, "The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth", published in late 1878 in which attributes the quotes to Dr. Cradock, 1877.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning Knight's work on the Lake District and Wordsworth; commenting "It would be by no means a bad plan not to be too exhaustive in a first Edition...I shall be very glad to be of any use in looking over proofs - and when I get to Grasmere I will try to fill up blanks in information - But old people are getting scarce; " adding, in a postscript, "I think I mentioned to you that the 'eglantine' certainly grew close to Balls cottages, under which the stream now runs. I gathered a splendid specimen in the wood above the cottages - I shall be much on the move till Aug't 10. then I hope to settle at Wood Close for 2 months - letters to be forwarded will always find me."
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