BIB_ID
409162
Accession number
MA 9248.2
Creator
Carlyle, Alexander, 1843-1931.
Display Date
1902 February 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 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.
Carlyle gives the place of writing as "30. Newbattle Terrace, Edinburgh."
Carlyle gives the place of writing as "30. Newbattle Terrace, Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Declining an invitation to St. Andrews for the moment; explaining that he is "very busy, and also worried by a small domestic upset, -- a change of servants at the end of this month. My Cook is going to be married, and our Housemaid (the Cook's Sister) wishes to leave at the same time"; promising to write when "affairs have resumed their ordinary course."
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