BIB_ID
408603
Accession number
MA 9183.18
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1883 March.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.2 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 day of writing is illegible.
The day of writing is illegible.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining an invitation to attend the Wordsworth meeting in London; asking whether he is entitled to get more copies of his book from Blackwood and saying he would like enough extra copies to send one to each of the people who have sent him copies of their book; saying they have enjoying their time with the Rawnsleys and that "He is a real 'child of nature' & grows on me much. He spent all his spare time evangelising against the Borrowdale Railway wh. I hope he will be able to stop;" commenting on how pleased he is with the look of the engraving for his book [on Hegel]; adding "Green's Ethics will soon be out & will be a really powerful contribution to our subject;" concluding, in a postscript, "We are to have Bright here in a fortnight to exhort the students as Rector. I wonder how he will do it?".
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