BIB_ID
408536
Accession number
MA 9183.6
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1878 October 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 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.
The signature has been cut away from this letter.
The signature has been cut away from this letter.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
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."
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