BIB_ID
419057
Accession number
MA 9987.12
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Lymm, England, 1892 December 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 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 "Baycliffe, / Lymm, / Cheshire."
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 "Baycliffe, / Lymm, / Cheshire."
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 wished he had known that Knight had letters from James Smetham when he and Sarah Smetham were preparing a collection of Smetham's correspondence; adding that Mrs. Smetham now owns most of the letters her husband sent to friends during his lifetime and, if Knight does not want to keep those sent to him, she would appreciate having them; adding that he has asked Macmillan to send Knight a copy of the new edition of the letters and reacting to reviews of the volume; mentioning news of Dora Greenwell; sending Christmas and New Year's wishes; enclosing a recent photograph of himself (no longer with the letter): "I look somewhat better now - not so much of an invalid. I still possess yours from the old days;" saying that he would be glad if Knight could help draw attention to Smetham's Letters.
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