BIB_ID
419025
Accession number
MA 9987.6
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Warrington, England, 1863 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (8 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.
Davies gives the place of writing as "Sankey St / Warrington."
With extensive editorial markings, presumably made by Knight, who quotes from Davies's letters in his "Retrospects" (Smith, Elder & Co, 1904).
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 St / Warrington."
With extensive editorial markings, presumably made by Knight, who quotes from Davies's letters in his "Retrospects" (Smith, Elder & Co, 1904).
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
Describing a brief vacation on the Isle of Wight with James Smetham; regretting that he cannot join Knight on a trip to the Lake District; discussing Wordsworth and Browning; saying that he has just received copies of his portrait from Camille Silvy, for whom he sat while in London; sending prints to Knight and asking for his portrait to add to Davies's album of photographs of his friends; describing a recent acquaintanceship with "some truly noble and excellent young ladies living in Warwickshire;" mentioning Dora Greenwell.
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