BIB_ID
407866
Accession number
MA 9171.17
Creator
Bute, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of, 1847-1900.
Display Date
1898 December 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 15.2 x 9.9 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
Declining his offer to lend him Cardinal Gibbons' book as the "...reading I do being in other directions, so I will not trouble you."
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