BIB_ID
408850
Accession number
MA 9183.52
Creator
Caird, Edward, 1835-1908.
Display Date
[1893?] May 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 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 the Oxford Union Society.
The year of writing is not provided however it is possible it follows on an earlier letter to Knight, dated April 15, concerning Knight's proposed visit to Oxford (MA 9183.51).
Written on stationery embossed with the seal of the Oxford Union Society.
The year of writing is not provided however it is possible it follows on an earlier letter to Knight, dated April 15, concerning Knight's proposed visit to Oxford (MA 9183.51).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Regretting that Knight will not be coming to Oxford due to illness; suggesting he "...throw all controversial nuisances off your mind" and not allow the "...distant rumors that there is a Free Church or a theo-ill-logical Duke reach you - & I have no doubt you will come back to dismay your enemies & rejoice your friends by your vigour in the great war ag'st the Philistines..."
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