BIB_ID
103736
Accession number
MA 23289.1-53
Creator
Heard, William Augustus, Rev., 1847-1921.
Display Date
London, England and Edinburgh, Scotland, 1888-1903.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
53 item (220 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
The year of writing is only provided in two letters dated 1902 and 1903 however Rev. Heard was a Master at Westminster School, Dean's Yard through 1889. He became Headmaster at Fettes College, Edinburgh in January 1890. The first twenty-four letters are written on mourning stationery from Dean's Yard, Westminster. Rev. Heard's wife, Elizabeth Tamar Burt Heard, died in 1888. The remaining letters are written primarily from Fettes College, Edinburgh.
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
A collection of letters from Rev. W.A. Heard to Professor William Angus Knight on matters literary and academic. Letters in the collection have been described individually in fifty-three separate catalog records; see related records for more information. .
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