BIB_ID
80593
Accession number
MA 8813.1
Creator
Arnold, Frances Lucy Wightman, 1825-1901.
Display Date
1888 September 26.
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.
Written on mourning stationery from "Fairy Hill / Swansea."
Written on mourning stationery from "Fairy Hill / Swansea."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning his request for any letters her husband might have kept from Principal Shairp; apologizing for the delay in her reply but explaining that her daughter had been ill; saying "...my dear husband did not keep letters as a rule - neither did he correspond regularly with any one out of his own immediate family;" thanking him for his expression of sympathy "...in my great sorrow. I am sure you can understand all that has gone out of my life with my husband. I cannot write about it - I can only say the sense of loss seems to deepen & increase, if possible, as time goes on."
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