BIB_ID
107737
Accession number
MA 22919.1-28
Creator
Flint, Robert, 1838-1910.
Display Date
Scotland, 1879-1906.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
28 items (62 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Being a collection of twenty-eight autograph letters signed from Robert Flint to Professor William Angus Knight primarily concerning academic matters related to the selection of the Gifford Lecturers; including a discussion of the opportunities for offering post-graduate education at St. Andrews after Lord Balfour became Chancellor and Andrew Carnegie made his large gift and was named Rector. Letters in the collection have been described individually in twenty-eight separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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