BIB_ID
102736
Accession number
MA 23066.1-4
Creator
Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878.
Display Date
Dundee, Scotland, 1871-1872.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
4 items (15 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
With a two page autograph manuscript that refers to a newspaper article "...accusing a minister who had attended the Burns Festival in 1859..." and quoting the clergyman's reply in 20 lines of verse.
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.
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
Being a small collection of four autograph letters signed from Gilfillan to Professor Knight on academic matters. Letters in the collection have been described individually in four separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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