BIB_ID
407743
Accession number
MA 9171.2
Creator
Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of, 1847-1900.
Display Date
1893 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.3 x 10.1 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 engraved "Mount Stuart, / Rothesay, / Isle of Bute."
Written on stationery engraved "Mount Stuart, / Rothesay, / Isle of Bute."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the union of Dundee and St. Andrews; saying "My apprehension is that Dundee may try to work the union upon the principle commonly expressed in the words 'Heads, I win; and tails, you lose' - as applied to St. Andrews - that is a solution to which, from every point of view, I am opposed - If Dundee is not to be sacrificed to St. Andrews, let not St. Andrews be sacrificed to Dundee. I see in the newspapers a statement that Principal Peterson has closed his course of lectures upon Roman History, as there were only five persons who cared to attend."
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