BIB_ID
419032
Accession number
MA 9987.7
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Warrington, England, 1864 March 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 18.5 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).
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).
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
Sympathizing with and advising Knight on the difficulties he has been having regarding his career in the church; discussing the progressive and conservative strains in the Church of England; saying that, after many years, he is at last leaving an uncongenial occupation and moving to Italy to pursue art and literature: "I can hardly believe in the near prospect of the object of all my earthly longings : liberty, sunshine, art, nature and the power to labour at such work as I love without any domination of the external in any way whatever;" commenting on Blake's drawings and poetry; quoting from a poem by Thomas Woolner; saying that he has not heard from Dora Greenwell for a long time; recommending Gustave Doré's illustrations of Dante's Inferno.
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