BIB_ID
401377
Accession number
MA 8841.17
Creator
Lubbock, John, Sir, 1834-1913.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 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.
The date of writing is given only as "Monday". Because Lubbock signs this letter as "John Lubbock" and not "Avebury" (his title after 1900), this letter is likely to have been written before 1900.
The date of writing is given only as "Monday". Because Lubbock signs this letter as "John Lubbock" and not "Avebury" (his title after 1900), this letter is likely to have been written before 1900.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Making arrangements for a game of golf the following day; suggesting that Lady Lubbock join them; mentioning that he is reading Knight's "Aspects of Theism" and that he will be sending his book, "The Origin of Civilization", to Knight to demonstrate that he has used certain terms in a different manner: "It would be very desirable if possible to agree on some meaning; but perhaps the time has not yet arrived."
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