BIB_ID
419097
Accession number
MA 9987.20
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Chester, England, 1895 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "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).
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "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
Referring to an early collection of his poetry titled Songs of a Wayfarer and offering to send Knight a copy; quoting Novalis on the subject of returning to one's early writings; discussing his desire for companionship; describing the "nervous restlessness" he suffers from and its effects on his life and productivity; commenting on the death of James Dykes Campbell; making various suggestions about a prospectus of Knight's; recommending Max Müller as the "best exponent of the Vedantic Systems" and "[T. W.] Rhys Davids of the Buddhistic ones;" discussing the philosophical schools of ancient India and their reception in Europe.
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