BIB_ID
418399
Accession number
MA 9909.23
Creator
Cradock, Edward Hartopp, 1810-1886.
Display Date
Grasmere, England, 1882 September 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning Knight's visit to Grasmere; saying he will arrange for their visit to Hawkshead in order to get access to the parish register; adding "Rawnsley tells me that the inscription at Grisedale Tarn is not well cut & will require further attention. Tennysons's brother, Horatio, is living in Barbara Lewthwaites cottage. Wordsworth's description of the two little eminences in Bane Crigg is so accurate that the place might have been certainly identified if no other evidence existed. But as the underwood will soon grow again, the features will be disguised for another score of years or so. William Wordsworth, the other day, spoke to me of the Fir Grove as being named by his father after the sailor brother."
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