BIB_ID
408941
Accession number
MA 9198.10
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
1887 January 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.2 x 12.5 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 the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
Written on the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing the progress on his book; saying "I think I told you that I had a final Chapter to write, & also that I had left out as yet any notice of the 'De Deo &c' treatise. But I cannot get a hands [illegible] done to it in the Winter. At any rate, my time is so broken up by business & outward engagements of all sorts that anything of the nature of continuous study is all but impossible. Blackwood sh'd know best, but I don't see how the success of the series depends on rapid publication. I sh'd think each book w'd stand for itself whatever the gap between it & the rest. At any rate I am very sorry for your sake that I cannot fix a date for handing over the MS at present. Alas, the worst of it is that it is not worth even a fraction of the trouble you have had about it."
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