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.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "10 Bruce Street / Hillhead / Glasgow."
Concerning Knight's memoir of John Nichol: writing that he does not think he could improve on the lines he wrote at the time of Nichol's death for the Herald (see MA 9061.1); adding that he is sure that his sister's (Marian de Glehn) recollections of Nichol would be interesting, but that her time is entirely taken up by caring for their elderly mother; suggesting "Rev. W. Thomson," a former pupil, as an individual able to discuss Nichol's skills as a lecturer; mentioning that he has not seen a manuscript of Nichol's lectures and so is unable to form any judgment about it; declining an invitation to St. Andrews; commenting on the difficulties of his job at the University of Glasgow: "If I am to get through it I must perforce live the life of a semi-invalid, and, it appears, abstain even from the literary work that I want to do & ought to do."