BIB_ID
408994
Accession number
MA 9198.23
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
[1886?] July.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.4 x 12.6 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. 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 "Peebles, July" 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 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, however that has been crossed through and "Peebles, July" written beneath it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing possible lecture opportunities for Knight and providing him contact details for several organizations in Glasgow and Edinburgh; adding "As to Spinoza, I have been trying my hand at the biographical part since you wrote me. That of course anyone who can make sentences may contrive to do decently : but I fear that beside [William] Wallace, [Robert] Adamson & Edward [Caird], my philosophy would look very small beer. However, I will give a definite answer to your kind proposal, possibly in time for the September Blackwood."
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