BIB_ID
102329
Accession number
MA 23071.5
Creator
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
Display Date
Hawarden, Wales, 1891 October 30.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.7 x 10.2 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
Knight published "The Philosophy of the Beautiful" in two volumes in 1891 and 1893.
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.
Knight published "The Philosophy of the Beautiful" in two volumes in 1891 and 1893.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for the "...work you have kindly sent me. I have at once commenced it and I hope to persevere. A strong and old believer in Beauty as an ultimate reality not less than Truth, or than Goodness, I am I hope well prepared to profit by your instructions."
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