BIB_ID
405575
Accession number
MA 9053.19
Creator
Boyle, G. D. (George David), 1828-1901.
Display Date
1900 May 12.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.6 x 10.2 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.
On morning stationery from "Chine Hotel / Boscombe / Bournemouth."
On morning stationery from "Chine Hotel / Boscombe / Bournemouth."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Referring to something he told him about "Lord Monboddo at the Athenæum - I daresay you know the story of my grandfather's words to David Hume when he heard of his (Humes') mothers death. Stanley in his Lecture on Scottish Church History gives a version rather different from the one in A. Carlyles autobiography and assisted by Burton in his Life of Hume. I never quite knew how Stanley got his account but I think it was from one of the old ladies of Fingask Miss Threipland. I have been reading the account of the Duke of Argyll's funeral. It is like a page of old history...I read your Dove Cottage article with great interest; adding that he will not forget his son and he has already mentioned him to "more than one friend."
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