BIB_ID
81486
Accession number
MA 9187.1
Creator
Caldecott, Alfred, 1850-1936.
Display Date
1891 October 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "St John's College, / Cambridge."
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "St John's College, / Cambridge."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for a cheque; writing that he thinks the £10 pound deduction was fair because of the amount of changes he made to his piece late in the process: "... on the advice of a friend I somewhat chastened the style from that which my original mood had prompted -- perhaps making it somewhat too stiff now; and this involved heavy corrections which the Printers most deftly carried through"; adding that he trusts that "the series will be a success [with] you as Editor"; concluding that he was pleased to see notice of it in the "Academy" and he wishes the "Athenaeum" had assigned it to a someone "friend or foe to it -- who would have looked into it for more than 5 minutes."
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