BIB_ID
400656
Accession number
MA 8800.9
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1894 December 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 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.
Written on mourning stationery engraved "Inveraray."
Written on mourning stationery engraved "Inveraray."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Referring to the "fuss about Blair's College;" discussing the Dundee Question and suggesting "...we ought all to agree to ascertain, first, whether the agreement was or was not validly made, and is now binding. If it was we must make the best of it. But never was any agreement made by any men in such a condition of ignorance...I have never been able to see what good it did for St. Andrew's. The advantage of Dundee was manifest - But as no one seems satisfied as to the original agreement it is difficult to see how it can work. I deplore the whole business & quite agree that the sooner there is no one solicited the better."
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