BIB_ID
417647
Accession number
MA 9840.2
Creator
Cooper, Charles Alfred, 1829-1916.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1892 September 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 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.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "Office of / The Scotsman / Edinburgh."
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "Office of / The Scotsman / Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for his kind note "with all my heart," but saying that he does not feel he has any cause for complaint: "My ambition does not lie in the direction of titles. I am not a rich man ; and a poor baronet is not in an enviable position. But I hold a strong opinion that conductors of newspapers ought not to hanker after titles and public rewards, lest their impartiality and honesty should be called in question, and their influence lessened or destroyed. It is my pride that no man can truthfully say that in any course I have taken in the Scotsman, I have been influenced by personal considerations [...] It is enough for me that I receive for my paper the respect of the public;" referring to current events and saying that he does not believe he has "lost the friendships of any man with whom I formerly co-operated who is now with Mr Gladstone. I have made many new friendships which I value greatly. This is all the reward I covet."
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