BIB_ID
404553
Accession number
MA 8987.5
Creator
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895.
Display Date
undated [1881-1895].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 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.
Blackie's dating of the letter is illegible, but it must have been written between 1881, when he and his wife Eliza moved into 9 Douglas Crescent, and his death in 1895.
On stationery with the letterhead "9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh."
Blackie's dating of the letter is illegible, but it must have been written between 1881, when he and his wife Eliza moved into 9 Douglas Crescent, and his death in 1895.
On stationery with the letterhead "9 Douglas Crescent, Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking if Knight would look over the "enclosed paper, and give me your judgment on an important educational question which is now [stirring] the teaching world from London to California" (the enclosure is no longer with the letter).
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