BIB_ID
408945
Accession number
MA 9198.12
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
[1887?] July 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.2 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.
The year of writing is not provided, however the letter discusses issues related to his book "Spinoza" which was published by Blackwood and Sons in 1888 as part of a series edited by Professor Knight and titled "Philosophical Classics for English Readers. The year of writing may be 1887. It should be noted, however, that with the publication of the volume on Leibniz in 1884, Blackwood lists the volumes "In Preparation" which includes Caird's volume on Spinoza.
Written on the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
The year of writing is not provided, however the letter discusses issues related to his book "Spinoza" which was published by Blackwood and Sons in 1888 as part of a series edited by Professor Knight and titled "Philosophical Classics for English Readers. The year of writing may be 1887. It should be noted, however, that with the publication of the volume on Leibniz in 1884, Blackwood lists the volumes "In Preparation" which includes Caird's volume on Spinoza.
Written on the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning his progress on Spinoza; saying "I have been much interrupted this week by meetings of Senate, graduation &c & I have found more time necessary than I expected to verify references &c so that I will not be able to send you the MS. till Monday or Tuesday. I suppose it sh'd then be sent to St. Andrews. We leave for Buxton on Wednesday & I will give you my address there as soon as we have fixed our quarters. My wife has been subject all the Winter to rheumatic attacks, & we sh'd have gone off sooner, had I been able to get away."
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