BIB_ID
408966
Accession number
MA 9198.19
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
[1886?] November 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.4 x 12.7 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 1886 as he refers to Professor Story about to start his Professorship. Robert story was appointed in 1886. 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 1886 as he refers to Professor Story about to start his Professorship. Robert story was appointed in 1886. 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 manuscript for Spinoza; saying "I have only a short final Chapter to write, & a brief notice to insert where it was left out of Spinoza's earlier treatise De Deo &c; but when I shall get a day's quiet leisure for this work I know not. Besides ordinary engagements the Senate have imposed on me the charge of the Ch. History Class till Story is ready to take the reins. But I will not waste time when I can get it. I am quite ashamed of all this bother about a small production which, I am profoundly conscious, is not worthy of a place in your series. As to sending the MS. to St. A. or direct, the latter course would save time, & I don't care to subject you to the task of revising my rubbish."
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