BIB_ID
408614
Accession number
MA 9183.21
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1884 July 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 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.
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of Glasgow University from "Newfield / Seathwaite / Brompton in Furness."
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of Glasgow University from "Newfield / Seathwaite / Brompton in Furness."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Relating news of friends; saying "We had Rawnsley over, like a summer storm, with 3 friends who fully occupied all the room provided for you. I am very sorry you were not of the company, & that you could not have remained for quiet talk on philosophy for a few days after the Rawnsley gale had blown over. I trust both your health & Mrs. Knight's may soon be better & I think both will probably revive if you can give yourself a little rest. Could you not throw everything aside for six weeks at least? If there are any proofs or such mechanical work to be done, I shall be glad to have you turn them over on me. I am rather good at watching proofs, as I have had considerable experience with my own & other people's work. Don't hesitate if you can make me of use that way. I do think it would be easy to explain all you mean in a short talk 'Empiricism & Idealism (or 'The Context of [Empiricism & Idealism] in relation to Literature & Life' is the shortest I can think of.
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