BIB_ID
407745
Accession number
MA 9171.3
Creator
Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of, 1847-1900.
Display Date
1893 March 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 15.3 x 12.3 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 "House of Falkland, / Falkland, / Fifeshire."
Written on stationery engraved "House of Falkland, / Falkland, / Fifeshire."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the establishment of a College for Women at St. Andrews; saying he will be in London and would be happy to go with him to "...see any of the gentlemen you name (none of whom are personally known to me) if my doing so can assist in the object of setting a thoroughly efficient College for Women established at St.A. Since our conversation on Sunday (which, had it not been for my own ignorant incapacity to profit by your talk, I might have called by a gentle inversion of words, a Philosophical Peripatetic), it has occurred to me whether you have ever, in your studies of Medieval Philosophy, turned your attention to the Cabbala, or Kabbala, or Zabbala, - however, it ought to be transliterated. It had a very powerful influence, as indeed had Judaism generally - There is a short introductory handbook by Ginsburg, but, of course, for further information, you would have to resort to the "Cabbala Denudata", and other larger works;" continuing to discuss Cabbala's influence and development; referring to an entry in the Catholic Dictionary for John Duns Scotus, born 1265 or 1274, died 1308; concluding that he hopes to have a conversation with him on "...the theory of the interdependence of all the parts of the Kosmos, which is the basis of Astrology."
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