BIB_ID
190492
Accession number
MA 9787.21
Creator
Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge, Baron, 1820-1894.
Display Date
England, 1884 March 13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 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.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of the Royal Courts of Justice.
Professor William Angus Knight was a professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews.
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of the Royal Courts of Justice.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Reiterating his promise that "...whenever any gentleman with a St. Andrews degree applies to me to be dispensed with his preliminary examination I will take care on being satisfied of the fact that he has such a degree that he shall be dispensed from the preliminary examination;" adding, in a postscript, "If you want more than this the Law Institution in Chancery Lane & not the Chief Justice is the authority to which you must apply."
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