BIB_ID
212397
Accession number
MA 8742.1-7
Creator
Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934.
Display Date
1885 May 20-1898 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
7 items (16 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 5 autograph letters signed, 1 letter signed, and 1 autograph letter to Professor William Angus Knight; written between 1885 and 1898 from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and other locations in Scotland, and from Ottawa; thanking Professor Knight for books received from him; discussing contributions that Lord Aberdeen could make to Knight's memoir of the scholar and professor John Campbell Shairp; discussing the authorship of a poem with a "Lord W."; and expressing regrets that Professor Knight will not be able to come north to Canada in the course of his trip to the United States.
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