BIB_ID
80555
Accession number
MA 8814.1-14
Creator
Arnold, Frances Bunsen Trevenen Whateley, 1833-1923.
Display Date
1881-1904.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
14 items (39 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
Frances Arnold was the youngest sister of Matthew Arnold.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 14 autograph letters signed, to William Angus Knight; written between 1881 and 1904 from Fox How, Ambleside and several other locations in England; discussing the friendship between the Arnold and Wordsworth families, poems and letters by William Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold, the Wordsworth Society, the establishment of Dove Cottage as a museum, the death of her brother Thomas, and the activities of the Arnold siblings and their descendants. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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