BIB_ID
418324
Accession number
MA 9909.17
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1880 March 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 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.
Docketed.
Written from Brasenose College, Oxford on stationery embossed with the college crest.
Docketed.
Written from Brasenose College, Oxford on stationery embossed with the college crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Accepting his invitation "...to be enrolled among the members of the Wordsworth Club. Your bishop will be a very good President. I do not know of any surviving male member of the Cookson family. The two unmarried sisters have forsaken Grasmere and live at Cambridge. I cannot forgive Matt. Arnold for omitting the 'Green Linnet'!! As to my remonstrance for leaving out 'the Sheepboy whistled aloud' (see MA 99090.16) he wrote (knowing my botanical tastes) that the 'Silence acaulis' had [illegible] my judgment of the poem!; offering a criticism from someone who had studied Knight's book who 'pointed out what he conceived to be a misinterpretation pp. 153-4 - he thinks that the 'huge pile' is simply Stonehenge and is not intended to describe anything on Blake Rigg. I am inclined to agree with him but I confess that 'pendent rocks' is not a happy expression for the stones on 'Sarum plain! On the other hand there is surely nothing on the crest of Blake Rigg which 'unquestionably sprung from mortal power;" commenting on the number of copies of Knight's book that were sold the previous autumn but the final two or three sentences and Cradock's signature have been cut off.
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