BIB_ID
399773
Accession number
MA 8734.1-5
Creator
Abbott, Evelyn, 1843-1901.
Display Date
1895-1900.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
5 items (10 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, to William Angus Knight; written between 1895 and 1900 from Hawick, Abingdon, Oxford, and other locations in Great Britain; discussing the friendship and correspondence between the master of Balliol College Benjamin Jowett and his former pupil John Nichol, and the projects that Abbott was working on with Lewis Campbell at the time, including a biography of Jowett and editions of his writing and correspondence.
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