BIB_ID
406375
Accession number
MA 9110.8
Creator
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
Display Date
1897 December 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 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.
Written on stationery embossed "Frewin Hall, / Oxford" but that has been crossed through.
Written on stationery embossed "Frewin Hall, / Oxford" but that has been crossed through.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning introductions he is providing to scholars in America; saying "There are alas! now comparatively few people in America of the kind whom you didn't want to miss 25 years ago, just as there [are] very few indeed in Britain. Probably the people you will most wish to see are the leading men in the Universities: & I give you with much pleasure introductory cards or notes to some of these who seem best worth seeing either personally or in respect of the institution they preside over. They will pass you on to any others you wish to see. Nothing more remarkable in our time than the great number of able & capable men everywhere, with few outstanding;" adding, in a postscript, "Woodberry is the ablest literary critic I know in the U.S. He is a great authority on Shelley. The others are eminent presidents or professors. Wm. James the most personally distinguished."
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