BIB_ID
190218
Accession number
MA 8771
Creator
Allon, Henry, 1818-1892.
Display Date
1871 March 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 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.
On stationery with embossed letterhead consisting of a crest, the motto "Fortiter gerit crucem" and the address "10, St. Mary's Road./ Canonbury.N."
On stationery with embossed letterhead consisting of a crest, the motto "Fortiter gerit crucem" and the address "10, St. Mary's Road./ Canonbury.N."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of Knight's Ms. and accepting it for publication in the July number of the British Quarterly Review; commenting about the North British Review, which had recently ceased publication, that "Lord Acton has clearly no recognition of any thing outside the world of scholars -- A Review must have popular as well as learned Articles"; offering Knight the "remuneration you have been accustomed to" and asking if he would share with him the terms on which Knight had been paid by the North British Review: "If, as I suspect, it had to draw upon the good nature of its friends -- of course we should give you more -- but as we are rearranging terms knowledge of this kind would be of value."
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