BIB_ID
409532
Accession number
MA 9343.6
Creator
Chisholm, Aeneas, 1836-1918.
Display Date
undated [1890 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.9 x 13.4 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.
Chisolm does not give a date of writing; however, he became the rector of Blairs College in 1890, suggesting that this letter was written after that date. Based on the tone of the letter, it also appears to have been written early in Knight's and Chisholm's acquaintance.
On stationery with an engraved image of a building identified as St. Mary's College at "Blairs by Aberdeen." There is also a pre-printed date line that Chisholm has not filled in, with the year listed as "186-".
Chisolm does not give a date of writing; however, he became the rector of Blairs College in 1890, suggesting that this letter was written after that date. Based on the tone of the letter, it also appears to have been written early in Knight's and Chisholm's acquaintance.
On stationery with an engraved image of a building identified as St. Mary's College at "Blairs by Aberdeen." There is also a pre-printed date line that Chisholm has not filled in, with the year listed as "186-".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for his letter and inviting him to visit Blairs College; describing an educational idea: "I am afraid what I am aiming at is not in the present state of matters of a practical nature. I aim at an affliation with one of our Scotch Universities -- the teaching to be exclusively in our own college -- but our curriculum based on that of the University & the Examinations to be entirely in the hands of the University -- Their Curriculum, our teaching, their degrees! [...] We could at least exchange ideas on the subject"; commenting on the image of St. Mary's College at the top of the letter; writing that he hopes to erect a new building, "the present one being a very miserable one for a College"; adding in a postscript that he hopes he has addressed Knight correctly (he addressed him as "Dear Rev Sir").
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