BIB_ID
400668
Accession number
MA 8800.10
Creator
Argyll, George Douglas Campbell, Duke of, 1823-1900.
Display Date
1897 February 24.
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 with the family crest and "Inveraray / Argyllshire" and marked "Private."
Written on mourning stationery engraved with the family crest and "Inveraray / Argyllshire" and marked "Private."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his concerns over the Dundee Question; saying he is glad to hear from someone "who can throw any light on the Dundee fever at St. Andrews. But your letter does not help me. It contains no agreement. But it expresses with passion the opinion that the oldest University of Scotland must go to the Dogs unless it is united to a College not yet 20 years old, & which is still in a [illegible] experimental stage as to its probable success! Will you be so good as [to] explain the grounds of this opinion? I can't conceive what it rests upon. I can see the benefit to Dundee to be [illegible] on, even in name, to a University several centuries old & to be called 'part of it'. But the benefit to St. Andrew's I have never been able to understand."
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