BIB_ID
419100
Accession number
MA 9987.21
Creator
Davies, William, active 19th century.
Display Date
Chester, England, 1895 August 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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
Sending him a copy of his early collection Songs of a Wayfarer: "I have expanded, as I hope, infinitely in many directions since those lines were written ; but I feel that it is in a great degree upon foundations there indicated that I have found my bases and grown;" quoting Novalis on this subject; mentioning a recent trip to the seaside town of Rhyl; mentioning that Mrs. Sandford has gone to Brittany for vacation.
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