BIB_ID
190231
Accession number
MA 8815.11
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
1884 October 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.9 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.
Written from the Athenæum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S.W."
Written from the Athenæum Club on Club stationery blind-embossed "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S.W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing that he will be unable to see him while he is in Scotland; explaining that he had replied as soon as he received the invitation but that he was "in the ends of S. Wales;" adding that "...my days in Scotland would be few, as my schools here will be wanting me back, and that I had engaged myself to stay with Lord Dalhousie during my Dundee visit."
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