BIB_ID
419051
Accession number
MA 9987.10
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Lymm, England, 1892 September 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 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.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "Baycliffe, / Lymm, / Cheshire."
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).
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "Baycliffe, / Lymm, / Cheshire."
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
Saying that he returned home over a month ago and that he is recovering from the stroke he experienced in the summer very slowly; giving his thoughts on patience, faith, and mortality: "I, for one, fully recognize and accept the Vedantic position that life is but the gate to Infinite Being, an evolution from the Lower to the Higher;" asking Knight to write and tell him about his life, including whether he has married or has a family; adding that he has read some of Knight's work and sympathizes with his admiration for Wordsworth: "I read him through again last winter with increased respect and love for his fine intuitions, his keen spiritual perceptions, and elevated wisdom;" saying that he remains unmarried but with a close circle of good friends; describing his current living situation; clarifying in a postscript that he is not anti-Christian, but that instead he holds "a much wider interpretation than is given to Christianity by the 'Churches.' It is the Divine and Eternal Voice, but not the only one spoken - It has never been silent in the world's history."
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