BIB_ID
418917
Accession number
MA 9979.3
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1893 May 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
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).
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
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 good wishes for her journey; saying that she is eager to set off and her climbing guide has written to tell her that the weather is currently hot and dry: "at this rate on pourra tout faire by the end of the month ; - while the probabilities are that the real summer will be very wet;" inviting him to come join her in Courmayeur in July; discussing in detail her plans for climbing Mont Blanc and the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey, "which few ascend, & where one can still experience the delights (or woes) of an open air bivouac;" mentioning other mountains she might climb; discussing her literary work and the expense of traveling; suggesting that he hire her sister to help him with his work and describing her: "She will be in town till last week in July, is a B.Sc. of Lond: Univr.y & as steady as Old Time. She is going after that to Norway, & is as wishful to pick up an honest 'guinea' as I am ; - for the same ends;" hoping that Knight's new book is meeting with critical appreciation; asking if he saw her memoir of "[George] Croom Robertson as a Teacher" in the April issue of Mind.
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