BIB_ID
409479
Accession number
MA 9339.5
Creator
Chiene, John, 1843-1923.
Display Date
undated [1895-1898].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 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.
John Shaw Billings became director of the New York Public Library in 1895 and Robert Muir was hired as a professor of pathology at St. Andrews in 1898, suggesting that this letter was written in the period between these two events.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "26, Charlotte Square, / Edinburgh." On the left side: "Telephone / No. 397."
John Shaw Billings became director of the New York Public Library in 1895 and Robert Muir was hired as a professor of pathology at St. Andrews in 1898, suggesting that this letter was written in the period between these two events.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "26, Charlotte Square, / Edinburgh." On the left side: "Telephone / No. 397."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Mentioning that "Dr Billings the American who has charge of the Libraries -- New York is here for a day & he tells me your articles are very good"; writing that his friend Robert Muir would like to become Professor of Pathology at St. Andrews and that Knight can "with perfect (as far as a human being can use the word) safely strongly recommend him to your colleagues on the court"; listing as members of the University Court "Burnet", "Steggall" (possibly J.E.A. Steggall, mathematics professor) and one other illegible name.
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