BIB_ID
80514
Accession number
MA 9173.1
Creator
Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey, 1828-1906.
Display Date
[1882-1906?] August 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.5 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.
Housed with a letter to Knight written three days later on the same subject. (See MA 9173.2)
Written on mourning stationery from "2 Albany Place." The year of writing is not given but in the letter which is housed with his letter (MA 9173.2) dated September 3, Dora Greenwell is no longer living. Greenwell died in 1882. As the letter is written on mourning stationery, it is possible it was written after 1890, the year in which her husband died on March 14th.
Housed with a letter to Knight written three days later on the same subject. (See MA 9173.2)
Written on mourning stationery from "2 Albany Place." The year of writing is not given but in the letter which is housed with his letter (MA 9173.2) dated September 3, Dora Greenwell is no longer living. Greenwell died in 1882. As the letter is written on mourning stationery, it is possible it was written after 1890, the year in which her husband died on March 14th.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing her disappointment that she had not yet called on Knight and his wife due to "...a very severe cold, w'h still keeps me to the house. I hope however to be able to pay you & Mrs. Knight a visit before I leave St. Andrews;" asking if he might have a copy of "The Patience of Hope" by Dora Greenwell as "It is many many years since I read it, & it would interest me deeply just to look at it again."
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