BIB_ID
408551
Accession number
MA 9183.11
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1882 June 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 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.
The remainder of the letter is not included in the collection.
The remainder of the letter is not included in the collection.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing for not being at the Wordsworth meeting but expressing his pleasure that the meeting was a success; putting forth his recommendations "...in behalf of several candidates of ours for the Dundee Chairs - in case you c'd be able to put in a word on the subject. I do not know whether Nichol has written you about MacCallum, but suppose he has done so; commenting on MacCallum and also recommending Sonnenschein and Muirhead as candidates for the Latin Chair; adding that he finished his "...article on Metaphysics for the Encyclopedia - which has cost me much more time than I had intended. I shall in a week or two get to work on my 'Hegel' & hope..."
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