BIB_ID
418269
Accession number
MA 9909.10
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Mullingar, Ireland, 1878 July 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning rights to reprint extracts from Wordsworth poems; saying " I have already written to the BP of Lincoln [Christopher Wordsworth] to engage him to apply to Mr. William Wordsworth for permission to reprint extracts from the Poems. I can scarcely imagine a refusal especially as your work is intended to increase the public interest in the Poems and so to promote the sale of Wordsworth's works, which I believe the present William values at what they will fetch! I am here without books or memoranda (except my fly book) so that I have no means of assisting in throwing light on the doubtful allusions in the Prelude. I will pay especial attention to them when I get to Grasmere on the 9th or 10th of August - I cannot doubt that the famous brook is that close to Dame Tyson's cottage...the building between the Cottage & the brook is obviously of recent date...I will look carefully to the passage from Prelude VII. If I am correct in my memory of Dove Cottage it would be impossible from the hearth to look [illegible] the door way - I have observed the effect described in other places thereabouts, especially in one case. I shall be very glad to see the proof sheets especially after my arrival at Grasmere, where I shall meet my books & where I can personally inspect any doubtful point;" adding, in a postscript, "BP of Lincoln will be at Grasmere about Aug. 15."
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