BIB_ID
419001
Accession number
MA 9987.1
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Warrington, England, 1862 June 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.5 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.
Davies gives the place of writing as "Sankey Street / Warrington."
With extensive editorial markings, presumably made by Knight, who quotes from Davies's letters in his "Retrospects" (Smith, Elder & Co, 1904).
Docketed.
This collection, MA 9987, is comprised of twenty-two letters and postcards from William Davies to William Angus Knight, written between 1862 and 1895. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9987.1-22).
Davies gives the place of writing as "Sankey Street / Warrington."
With extensive editorial markings, presumably made by Knight, who quotes from Davies's letters in his "Retrospects" (Smith, Elder & Co, 1904).
Docketed.
This collection, MA 9987, is comprised of twenty-two letters and postcards from William Davies to William Angus Knight, written between 1862 and 1895. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9987.1-22).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Making detailed suggestions of poetry and drama that could be excerpted in a volume of devotional poetry; discussing, among others, Thomas Chatterton, John Marston, Thomas Ken, John Donne, Chaucer, and Ben Jonson; recommending various collections that Knight could draw on.
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