BIB_ID
419058
Accession number
MA 9987.13
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Lymm, England, 1892 December 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 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.
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
Thanking Knight for sending him letters he had received from James Smetham and returning them to him; explaining that he does not think they would be of interest to Smetham's widow as they only concern business; sympathizing with Knight's wife's illness and commenting: "What a mystery those subtle nervous complaints are! I have learnt by experience their terrible, their remorseless potency. Time and quiet appear to be the only remedies for a thorough cure;" adding that it is indeed strange that she mentioned him during a period of suffering.
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