BIB_ID
102738
Accession number
MA 23116.1
Creator
Goulburn, Edward Meyrick, 1818-1897.
Display Date
Harrogate, England, 1887 August 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from "Cleveland House, Harrogate."
Part of a small collection of four letters from Edward Goulburn to Professor Knight (see also MA 23116.2, MA 23116.3 and MA 23116.4).
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.
Part of a small collection of four letters from Edward Goulburn to Professor Knight (see also MA 23116.2, MA 23116.3 and MA 23116.4).
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 a proposed memoir of Principal Shairp; saying he does not remember any correspondence from Mrs. Shairp or her son on the proposed memoir "...but that may well be, as I have a large correspondence, and my memory has become very treacherous in old age. Anything that I could write about Mr. Shairp must be very brief; for I know next to no incidents of his life; and all I could say would be rather an expression of my esteem and affection for his character than a record of what befell him. But if Mrs. Shairp wishes me to try, that would be with me a reason for trying; and in that case I must do my best."
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