BIB_ID
408955
Accession number
MA 9198.15
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
[1887?] September 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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, however that has been crossed through and "Buxton" written beneath it.
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, however that has been crossed through and "Buxton" written beneath it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the proofs of the Spinoza book; saying he has received the proof but he is leaving Buxton and will not have time to review it until he is back in Glasgow; saying "My head-quarters in September will be there (Glasgow), though I may be occasionally absent. I should like my brother Edward to glance at the proof before I have done with it. So perhaps you will be good enough to tell Blackwood (or shall I write him?) to send duplicate proofs to him, addressed, during September 'Prof'r Edward Caird / Tyddyn Marsley, / Llanberis.' I should like also another copy of the first proof to be sent to me at Glasgow, as I have sent mine to him. But why sh'd I bother you with this intermediating correspondence? May not I communicate with the printer direct?"
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