BIB_ID
418376
Accession number
MA 9909.20
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Oxford, England, 1882 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 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 college stationery.
Written from Brasenose College, Oxford on college stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying it is unlikely he will be able to attend the meeting saying "I have not recovered my full strength after a bad time earlier in the spring and my 72 years begin to [illegible] on my power of bearing fatigue - If the day is fine, & I get a good sleep I may perhaps muster courage;" asking where his subscription should be paid and in what amount; adding "I hope that your edition de luxe of Wordsworth is making progress - I was much pleased with the specimen pages."
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