BIB_ID
406458
Accession number
MA 9110.20
Creator
Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922.
Display Date
[1886-1889?].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.7 x 12.1 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 with the seal of the House of Commons Library.
The letter is undated. Volume VIII of the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society was published in 1886. The Scotch University Bill went before the House of Commons in the summer of 1889.
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of the House of Commons Library.
The letter is undated. Volume VIII of the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society was published in 1886. The Scotch University Bill went before the House of Commons in the summer of 1889.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Reporting on a Bill that was thrown out by Committee; asking for a copy of Volume VIII of the Transactions [of the Wordsworth Society]; reporting "They promise us the Scotch Univ. Bill, but everything is uncertain this year."
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