BIB_ID
418247
Accession number
MA 9909.7
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1878 June 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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 from Brasenose College, Oxford.
Written on mourning stationery from Brasenose College, Oxford.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure that Knight is making such good progress on the book and encouraging him to make use of the notes he gave him in any way he would like; commenting on his Blea Tarn discoveries, the "Mary Hutchinson pool" and the "glowworm rock"; continuing to discuss other places mentioned in Wordsworth poems; offering to bring someone with him when he is in Grasmere in August to look at a specific beech tree; commenting on a wren's nest saying "The Wren nest in the pollard oak is a very curious link with the past. How many generations of wrens have there broken the egg. I s'd like to have seen the buzzard at the rock - that poem touches me more than any - I hope also you visited my rill near Low Wood;" ending with a fragment of a sentence in which he offers make an enquiry.
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