BIB_ID
408696
Accession number
MA 9183.33
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
1900 March 2.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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 Balliol College.
Written from Balliol College.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he is sorry to hear he, Mrs. Knight and their daughter Mary have "...all been suffering from this dreadful scourge of influenza - wh. has got hold of a good number of men here & none I am glad to say very seriously, except Sir J. Conroy who has gone off to Amalfi after eight weeks confinement to his rooms;" commenting on a manuscript he has received from Knight on Hutcheson; saying what he has read seems primarily biographical and he will have to wait until he reads more which he hopes will be more philosophical in order to give his report on it; commenting on the war saying "It is a great relief that the war has taken a better turn. Besides the general [illegible], we have many friends & members of the College at the war. No less than eight of our undergraduates have volunteered since the beginning of the Term."
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