BIB_ID
400627
Accession number
MA 8800.1
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1882 January 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing academic scholarships; discussing Knight's proposal regarding the payment of bursaries to individual students, a possible increase in the amount and the length of time any student could hold one; adding "I, not unfrequently[sic], do practically the same thing practically by paying the College fees for poor students in whom I have a personal interest - from connection with my own property - or otherwise;" saying that he believes the value of bursaries should be raised.
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