BIB_ID
418915
Accession number
MA 9979.1
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
Ben Rhydding, England, 1892 August 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 8.9 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 two small cards.
Signed with her maiden name.
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
Written on two small cards.
Signed with her maiden name.
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and saying that she would be happy to see the proofs he has mentioned; asking him to send them to her in Ben Rhydding and to let her know when he needs them returned; adding "You may do what you like with any remarks in my last letter - it's gratifying to me to have in any way forwarded your work;" discussing a question of appropriation: "Even if I could talk pearls & diamonds like a legendary youngest Princess - or write them - I should not think myself worthy if I cared in the least to retain proprietary rights over them;" adding that a certain sentence came from "a clever American sketch entitled I think Jud Browning on Rubenstein's Playing" (referring to George William Bagby's story "Jud. Browning's Account of Rubenstein's Playing"); mentioning that she is staying at a boarding house on the moors for a few weeks longer, preparing "something for the Oriental Congress on Buddhist nuns;" saying that afterwards she will "go abroad again to my beloved Italian Alps & to witness the vintage about Aosta. I expect to start before the Congress itself."
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