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Letter from William Hanna, Edinburgh, to William Angus Knight, 1867 February 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
105619
Accession number
MA 23244.1
Creator
Hanna, William, 1808-1882.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1867 February 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
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.
Housed with an additional letter from Hanna to Professor Knight dated Edinburgh, September 1, 1869 (see MA 23244.2)
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining an invitation as he has just announced he will "...retire altogether from the Ministry in May on consequence of the unsatisfactory state of my health for the last year. I could not in the face of that announcement undertake in the mean time any extra work and have declined any thing of the kind - I mention this that you may not think that it is from any want of interest in yourself or in your work in Dundee that I do not come to you and I very cordially desire to see any thing that you are connected with prospering as you could desire.