BIB_ID
410390
Accession number
MA 9397.9
Creator
Cochran-Patrick, Robert William, 1842-1897.
Display Date
1889 November 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 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.
Written on mourning stationery engraved "Woodside / Beith, N.B." and marked "Private" in the upper left corner.
Professor Knight delivered lectures to the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh in 1889 on "The Philosophy of the Beautiful / Being Outlines of the History of Aesthetics." The lectures would be published in London by John Murray in 1891.
Written on mourning stationery engraved "Woodside / Beith, N.B." and marked "Private" in the upper left corner.
Professor Knight delivered lectures to the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh in 1889 on "The Philosophy of the Beautiful / Being Outlines of the History of Aesthetics." The lectures would be published in London by John Murray in 1891.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying he was sorry to miss him at St. Andrews and "I have one or two things to tell you wh. will amuse you but wh. I cannot write!;" encouraging him "...to publish his lectures on the Beautiful. Ages ago it was a question wh. greatly interested me."
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