BIB_ID
419036
Accession number
MA 9987.8
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Warrington, England, 1864 June 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.6 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 Street / Warrington."
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."
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
Saying that his mother has been very ill and that he is busy with his commercial duties for the next three weeks, so that a visit from Knight is not advisable; regretting that he will not be able to see him before he leaves for Italy; asking to be remembered to all his friends in Durham; inviting Knight to come visit him in Italy in the future.
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