BIB_ID
408649
Accession number
MA 9183.26
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1893 November 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 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.
Caird was elected Master of Balliol College at Oxford in 1893.
Caird was elected Master of Balliol College at Oxford in 1893.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for his congratulations; saying "It is with very [illegible] feelings that I have resolved to leave my work here & many friends, especially my brother. And I had quite made up my mind not to go, unless I were unanimously called, as seemed at first impossible. But the magnanimity of your old friend Strachan-Davidson [illegible] the election unanimous & from my old associations - such a call was about impossible to resist. I am sorry to hear you c'd have heard anything about my wishes for the future of my Chair except from me, as I had intended to write you my reasons for wishing Jones to come here rather than any other...owing to his long associations with me, & his peculiar prowess & sympathies;" adding, in a postscript, "Of course I s'd not wish either you or Jones to say anything to strangers about my wishes..."
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