BIB_ID
408996
Accession number
MA 9198.25
Creator
Caird, John, 1820-1898.
Display Date
[1872-1898?] August 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 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, Caird first introduced himself to Knight in a letter dated January 22, 1872 (see MA 9198.1) and Caird remained at Glasgow University until his death in 1898.
Written on the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
The year of writing is not provided, however, Caird first introduced himself to Knight in a letter dated January 22, 1872 (see MA 9198.1) and Caird remained at Glasgow University until his death in 1898.
Written on the stationery of The University, Glasgow.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for a gift; adding "It so happens that Mrs. Jack sent a copy to my wife. She has been reading it with much interest, as I am sure, will I, when she has finished reading it. I have only seen one or two brief notices of it, which speak of your part as performed with all your [illegible] literary skill. I am sorry to hear that the results in a material point of view are less satisfactory, & I can scarcely imagine why it sh'd be so."
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