BIB_ID
409477
Accession number
MA 9339.4
Creator
Chiene, John, 1843-1923.
Display Date
[year of writing unknown] October 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 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.
Chiene served as Consulting Surgeon to the Field Forces during the Boer War. This letter may have been written on his return from Africa.
On mourning stationery with embossed letterhead: "26, Charlotte Square, / Edinburgh."
Chiene served as Consulting Surgeon to the Field Forces during the Boer War. This letter may have been written on his return from Africa.
On mourning stationery with embossed letterhead: "26, Charlotte Square, / Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing "When in Africa I took out some axioms of M.A. & here they are. It was a relief to get back to his restfulness in all the worry"; asking Knight to let him known when he will next be in Edinburgh.
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