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.
The signature has been cut away from this letter.
Sending him an essay by "...Professor Watson on Tyndall's Belfast Address. I do so because I wish you w'd ask him to do something for your Society. He is the best pupil I ever had, and I think one of the most powerful writers on philosophy now at work;" saying " I am very sorry to hear that the financial position of your University is so bad. I wish we c'd annex you & combine our energies : for the work here is almost beyond one man's strength;" adding that he is working on "...something about Wordsworth and "In it I mean to call upon you to produce a chronologically arranged edition - Wordsworth is made almost unintelligible as a whole by the present arrangement."