BIB_ID
405610
Accession number
MA 9062.6
Creator
Bradley, George Granville, 1821-1903.
Display Date
1888 November 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.5 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.
Blind embossed letterhead: "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S. W."
Blind embossed letterhead: "Athenæum Club / Pall Mall S. W."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending his "hearty thanks" for the memoir of John Campbell Shairp that Knight had just published (Principal Shairp and his Friends, London: John Murray, 1888); apologizing for making two mistakes in his contribution; taking issue with a quotation by a former student that he attributed to Bradley: "I was rather startled to see the words [Henry] Rhoades put into my mouth -- he can't have invented them -- but they were so hyperbolical & untrue for him to have quoted without a 'tip' to me -- I can't the least remember them"; commenting on the presentation of Shairp's "very free & bold thinking on religious questions" in the book.
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