BIB_ID
418244
Accession number
MA 9909.6
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1878 January 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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 from Brasenose College, Oxford on the college stationery.
Written from Brasenose College, Oxford on the college stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Enclosing notes on Wordsworth "...of which you may make as much use or as little as you please. On reflexion I am inclined to think that the modus operandi suggested by you is the more prudent in the first instance. If your publication shows by its results that the public are interested in the subject my more venturesome scheme might be afterwards tried at less risk of failure. There are several places connected with Wordsworth poems not included in the Lake district such as the scene of 'We are seven" on the Wye...If so the field is capable to very wide extension, too wide perhaps;" expressing his hope that Mr. Howard's motion on the Manchester Water Bill will be successful "...But I fear that people care for nothing just now but the eternal Eastern question."
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