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Letter from Dora Greenwell, Prudoe Castle, to William Angus Knight, 1866 August 8 : autograph manuscript.

BIB_ID
428119
Accession number
MA 23166.15
Creator
Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882.
Display Date
Ovingham, England, 1866 August 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (14 pages) ; 21.0 x 13.1 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Being a lengthy essay of her "Thoughts connected with the Renaissance / For Mr. Knight;" concluding, in a postscript, "Might not an interesting book be written on the call there is on the Church of Christ to march with the marching order under the title of 'E pur si muove' [And yet it moves]."