BIB_ID
428135
Accession number
MA 23166.22
Creator
Greenwell, Dora, 1821-1882.
Display Date
Windermere, England, 1864-1867? September 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 13.3 x 8.8 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.
The year of writing is not provided however the published letters to Professor Knight from Dora Greenwell span 1864-1867. It is likely this letter was written in that time period.
The year of writing is not provided however the published letters to Professor Knight from Dora Greenwell span 1864-1867. It is likely this letter was written in that time period.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing her concern for the Knight's daughter and relating news of her Mother's and her own health; saying "You know what my mothers usual state is, & how much care it always demands - now my health which has always been so delicate seems gone - I have been lately almost confined to bed, & am scarcely ever free from wearing cough. I have tried one or two changes, & am now just setting off with Alan to Cumberland, where a friend has most kindly placed her beautiful house at Grasmere at our disposal for three weeks - we feel of course very reluctant to be both of us leaving my Mother at the same time, however as I am not well enough to travel alone, there seems no help for it, & she herself is quite brave on the subject & says she can do very well - I suppose there is no chance of you being in the Lake district this autumn. I know you sometimes come & I am sure in that case you will make us out. What a happiness it would be for you & I & Alan to have a good talk once more!;" asking, if he is at home, if he would send her "...any letters of mine that touch upon great Christian or social lines of thought, especially the subject of our Saviours meritorious work and Sacrifice. I am anxious to draw out a sort of confession of faith, as to what these things have appeared to me individually in a series of papers which I have begun under the title of 'Liber Humanitatis'. When I return I will send you the opening which you need not return as I have another copy. Anything I may have written in former years would be a great help, as from having been so long unwell I feel considerable difficulty in concentrating & arranging my thoughts, - even those which most deeply occupy me. After this work is done I am going to give myself entirely to critical essays connected with poetry & the poetic nature a region to which as you know I have long been greatly drawn - but wish first of all to express myself a little from the heart outward as to the great relations between God & man;" relating news of the marriage of a mutual friend.
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