Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to William Angus Knight, 1894 November 16.

Saying that he is glad to hear that Knight will be writing a biographical sketch of John Nichol (who had died on October 11, 1894), and that it would be a great pleasure if anything he had written about Nichol would be useful for Knight's work; adding that he cannot at the moment find the lines he wrote about Nichol for the Herald, but that he will procure a copy of this; adding that his sister, Marian de Glehn, knew Nichol and might also be able to help; writing that he hopes Nichol's lectures will be published: "I never heard Nichol lecture, but I have always had the feeling, since I knew him, that his books, brilliant as some of them are, do not fully represent him; and it is quite possible that something of him may appear in his lectures which he did not completely succeed in conveying, or perhaps allow to appear, in a more regular literary form"; thanking Knight for inviting him to St. Andrews, though explaining that "I am so let & hindered by physical infirmities that I very rarely get away during Session...".