BIB_ID
419059
Accession number
MA 9987.14
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Lymm, England, 1893 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.9 x 13.3 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."
With 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 "Baycliffe, / Lymm, / Cheshire."
With 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
Thanking Knight for a photograph; saying he finds the countryside lonely and dull, and he is considering moving to Chester: "Truth is, I am spoiled for an indifferent and commonplace life. I was the centre of an intellectual circle of remarkable people of high intelligence and attainments in Rome. My illness was marked by a display of warm kindness from the colony of foreigners there, which was one of the most beautiful things of my life. It is one of the mysteries of my life that I should have been flung out of what seemed so exactly my position and vocation, to be cast into a spiritual desert. In my present condition, I cannot return. I can only wait, wait;" adding that London, where he has friends, may also be an option, though his health and the distance currently prevents from contemplating it.
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