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Letter from Lord Goschen, London, to William Angus Knight, 1886? March 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
102730
Accession number
MA 23110.1
Creator
Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, Viscount, 1831-1907.
Display Date
London, England, 1886? March 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The year of writing is not provided however Lord Goschen addressed the House of Commons on the Fettes Scheme on March 29, 1886.
The letter is marked 'Private" above the salutation.
Written from "69, Portland Place, W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Part of a small collection of three letters from Lord Goschen to Professor Knight (see also MA 23110.2 and MA 23110.3).
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
Concerning the Trust for Fettes College; discussing his desire to keep an open mind, to hear arguments on both sides and expressing his concern that "...the classes for whom the endowments were intended have failed to secure them. I will not say that this is the case in the Fettes Trust : for there is much in the interpretation of the words of the trust which strengthen your views : but I am bound to say that I could not allow myself to be carried away by the educational success if complaints could fairly be made to the Trust being diverted from the classes to whom it was intended. It appears to me to be of the highest social & political importance, that no class should have a case with regard to its interests having been neglected...I shall be very glad if it can be proved satisfactorily that there is no ground for attacking the character which has been given to the Trust."