BIB_ID
405588
Accession number
MA 9061.6
Creator
Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil), 1851-1935.
Display Date
[1895-1896] March 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 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.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "10 Bruce Street / Hillhead / Glasgow."
The letter must have been written between Nichol's death in October 1894 and the publication of Knight's Memoir of John Nichol in 1896.
Bradley gives the place of writing as "10 Bruce Street / Hillhead / Glasgow."
The letter must have been written between Nichol's death in October 1894 and the publication of Knight's Memoir of John Nichol in 1896.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that he is sorry to hear how "laborious a task this Memoir of Nichol has proved", but that he cannot offer to write anything in addition to the column he wrote for the Herald at the time of Nichol's death (see MA 9061.1): "I do not think I could add anything of value to the lines I wrote on the spur of the moment. I fancy you hardly realize how little I saw of Nichol. I never saw him at all until I came to Glasgow, and afterwards I merely paid an hour's visit to him two or three times a year in London."
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