BIB_ID
419064
Accession number
MA 9987.15
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Lymm, England, 1893 February 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.8 x 11.1 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 his offer of an introduction; saying that he is "longing to be of some use or help to somebody in this world" and that he has been considering teaching classes in Italian literature in Chester; adding "I would only like to select intelligent people who wish to know - nothing that would be of the nature of drudgery. I am not strong enough for that, but I think could manage the other sufficiently with a few persons really interested. We shall see."
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