BIB_ID
212972
Accession number
MA 8946
Creator
Benn, Alfred William, 1843-1915.
Display Date
1898 September 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3
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.
Embossed letterhead, which has been crossed out: "70 Via Cavour,/ Florence."
Embossed letterhead, which has been crossed out: "70 Via Cavour,/ Florence."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he has found a publisher for his Philosophy of Greece; writing that, because the "little book was undertaken at your suggestion & is based on an idea given by you", he would like to acknowledge Knight in the preface; enclosing a draft of this acknowledgment, in which he explains that Knight had originally planned a series of books, "Philosophy of the Nations", which would re-tell the history of philosophy through a national lens but that the series unfortunately was never published.
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