BIB_ID
419082
Accession number
MA 9987.17
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Chester, England, 1893 April 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 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 "78, Watergate Street / Chester."
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).
Davies gives the place of writing as "78, Watergate Street / Chester."
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
Commenting critically on Wordsworth's prose and Ruskin's poetry; referring to selections he is suggesting to Knight for a volume; writing about a "Vedanta Scheme" and saying "I should very much like to inaugurate something from the scientific not 'theosophic' (that much abused word!) point of view, and shall try;" describing his understanding of the Vedas; adding that he was sorry to not have spoken to Knight after his lecture at the high school, but explaining that the effort of listening to it exhausted him; saying how much the lecture interested him.
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