BIB_ID
190221
Accession number
MA 8774
Creator
Allon, Henry, 1818-1892.
Display Date
1879 March 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.2 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 mourning stationery with embossed letterhead consisting of the address "10, St. Mary's Road./ Canonbury.N."
On mourning stationery with embossed letterhead consisting of the address "10, St. Mary's Road./ Canonbury.N."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing earlier and begging Knight to "Forgive a busy man greviously tormented by devils (printers)"; saying Knight is at liberty to republish any of his papers, his only reservation being that he has several papers on "allied subjects" (which he lists and includes "no end of papers on Evolution, Materialism..."); writing that "Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer & all their schools ought to have gone out of existence long ago -- they never know when they are beaten"; hoping Knight will provide him with "articles of another colour".
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