BIB_ID
419088
Accession number
MA 9987.18
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Chester, England, 1893 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 12.1 x 7.4 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."
Written on a postcard with a pre-printed half penny stamp.
Addressed to: "Prof W. Knight etc. etc. / University / St. Andrews / Scotland."
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).
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Davies gives the place of writing as "78, Watergate Street / Chester."
Written on a postcard with a pre-printed half penny stamp.
Addressed to: "Prof W. Knight etc. etc. / University / St. Andrews / Scotland."
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).
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for a copy of The Philosophy of the Beautiful; saying that Knight need not acknowledge his contributions to the Wordsworth Selections; concluding "It is the racing season - third and last day, thank the Fates! The uproar underneath my windows is something too distracting."
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