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Autograph letter : Aberdeen, to [William Angus Knight], 1885 December 26.

BIB_ID
399858
Accession number
MA 8742.2
Creator
Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Marquess of, 1847-1934.
Display Date
1885 December 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 12.5 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 in the third person with no identification of the recipient except a penciled note at the bottom of the letter indicating that it was part of the Knight collection.
Written on stationery with the letterhead "Haddo House,/ Aberdeen".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
"Returned by first post with much satisfaction and all best wishes."