BIB_ID
418953
Accession number
MA 9979.11
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1899 November 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 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 on stationery engraved "Nâlanda, / Honor Oak Road, S.E."
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters 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 stationery engraved "Nâlanda, / Honor Oak Road, S.E."
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters 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 letters and for a royalty cheque, "which I have duly acknowledged to Mr. Murray;" saying that she is both amused and relieved to learn the cause of the delay in sending it; referring to a mistake in the Times; mentioning her son Arthur and saying that her husband is currently in the Indian Ocean near Bombay; discussing the sales of and readers' responses to the George Croom Robertson manuals; asking after Knight's health and inviting him to lunch or dine with her.
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