BIB_ID
401466
Accession number
MA 8854.3
Creator
Bain, Alexander, 1818-1903.
Display Date
1876 August 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.4 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
Listing the obstacles to his giving a lecture at St. Andrews in October, among them prior commitments to the Edinburgh Metaphysical Society and the University of Aberdeen: "it is also true, that I am working a great deal at the subject of Education, but I have not any very definite field chalked out as the subject of a Lecture such as you desiderate"; congratulating Knight on his appointment to the Moral Philosophy chair at St. Andrews.
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