BIB_ID
408840
Accession number
MA 9183.49
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
[1896] April 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 16.1 x 10.1 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 121 Eldon Street, Greenock.
The year of writing is not provided however John Caird suffered a stroke in 1896.
Written from 121 Eldon Street, Greenock.
The year of writing is not provided however John Caird suffered a stroke in 1896.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling him he is in Scotland visiting his brother; relating news of his brother's health saying "I am happy to say that he is steadily improving - tho' it will probably be a month or more before he is able to walk freely. The paralysis however was from the first entirely confined to the leg, & seems slowly departing from that(?). I go to see him again tomorrow & the next day return to Oxford for the Easter Term, wh. begins next week; saying that he was shown "...a piece of a letter of mine wh. you are embodying in Nicol's life. I have no objection but, if there is any other writing of mine, I s'd like to see it before it is published. By the way at the beginning of the letter, you put me down as one of Nichol's earliest pupils. I suggest that it s'd read 'friends' - as I never was a pupil of Nichol. I hope you will soon get thro' this work. I am afraid you over work yourself by taking too many things on hand."
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