BIB_ID
190339
Accession number
MA 9165.18
Creator
Butcher, S. H. (Samuel Henry), 1850-1910.
Display Date
1894 January 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 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.
Written from "22 Collingham Place / London S.W."
The reference to Lords K & K are to Lord Alexander Kinnear and to William Mackintosh, Lord Kyllachy. Butcher refers to them in full in a subsequent letter, MA 9165.22
Written from "22 Collingham Place / London S.W."
The reference to Lords K & K are to Lord Alexander Kinnear and to William Mackintosh, Lord Kyllachy. Butcher refers to them in full in a subsequent letter, MA 9165.22
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the ongoing negotiations over the incorporation of the University College of Dundee into St. Andrews; thanking him for his letter "...explaining some points in the situation which one c'd not well understand otherwise. I will see that Lords K & K become acquainted with these details so far as is necessary. If an Ordinance on the lines of Schedule B could be passed in the ordinary course it w'd much simplify the matter. But the original agreement cannot be cancelled except by Act of Parliament : hence the necessity for the Private Bill...There is another matter also. Some difficulty is felt about appropriating £3000 a year of public money unconditionally to Dundee College. How if it should turn out a failure? Must it still receive the money. However this is an objection which arises at a late stage. It presupposes some general agreement & united action."
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