BIB_ID
190233
Accession number
MA 8815.13
Creator
Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.
Display Date
[1887] July 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.2 x 10.1 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.
The year of writing from the published letter.
Written from the Athenæum Club on stationery blind-embossed with the Club crest.
The year of writing from the published letter.
Written from the Athenæum Club on stationery blind-embossed with the Club crest.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining to write a remembrance of Principal Shairp; explaining "...that it does not come natural to me to speak of my dead friends in this fashion, and that what one does not do naturally one never does well. Some day or other, and in some manner, I should like to say a word or two about both Shairp and Walrond; for each of whom I had a sincere affection; but when I shall feel able to do it, or how, I cannot say. I am very glad you are preparing a memoir of Shairp; he was not only a loveable man in the time when I knew him best, but a very stimulative and inspiring one.
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