BIB_ID
408556
Accession number
MA 9183.12
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1882 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 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.
Written from "Middleton Place / Patterdale."
Written from "Middleton Place / Patterdale."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his disappointment at missing him in the Lake district; relating news of mutual friends he has seen while there; reporting on his Hegel writing saying "The 'Hegel' is getting on - I have got the life completed, (baring a little revising) & am well into the [illegible] of the philosophy, which I am afraid at best will be a stiff morsel for the 'general reader' - tho' I am making it as palpable as I can. The life gave me more trouble as I am rather unpracticed at narrative writing, & didn't much like it;" asking if he might be coming his way before they leave the following week; adding "Your Wordsworth seems to me a great success so far, though I wish you had let the poets' final sentence rest on 'Andrew Jones; & his two halfpence - 'I wish &c - & sweep him from the volume'. I am rather rejoicing in Gladstone's so far successful management of Ireland & Egypt - as against all Tories & Crypto-Tories like your J. Nichol - But the former is a hard & difficult business."
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