BIB_ID
408566
Accession number
MA 9188.5
Creator
Calderwood, Henry, 1830-1897.
Display Date
1897 January 18.
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.
Marked "Private & confidential."
On stationery with the blue embossed seal of the University of Edinburgh.
Marked "Private & confidential."
On stationery with the blue embossed seal of the University of Edinburgh.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing a proposal that Knight has made, apparently for the subject of a Gifford Lecture or the appointment of a particular Lecturer; describing some of the procedural problems and larger questions his proposal raises; adding "[b]efore your note came to hand, I had been pressing that Professor [Robert] Flint should be urged to undertake the Lecture; and I am committed to this [...] I do not as yet know who have been nominated, for the nominations are sent in under cover."
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