BIB_ID
417856
Accession number
MA 9890.3
Creator
Blyth, G. F. Popham (George Francis Popham), 1832-1914.
Display Date
Jerusalem, Israel, 1904 March 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.4 x 11.1 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.
Part of a small collection of three autograph letters signed and one postcard signed from Bishop Blyth to Professor Knight. See also MA 9890.1, MA 9890.2 and MA 9890.4.
Part of a small collection of three autograph letters signed and one postcard signed from Bishop Blyth to Professor Knight. See also MA 9890.1, MA 9890.2 and MA 9890.4.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for sending "so welcome a friend as the son of Sir Henry Acland to visit;" expressing his disappointment that he has not been able to get the support of Andrew Carnegie but suggesting three things that Knight might propose to Carnegie if the occasion arose; naming the need for funds for the General Hospital at Haifa, a playground for his boys school "in which all Christians, Jews and Moslems play happily together" and money to build a dispensary; adding that "Any one of these might be submitted to Mr. Carnegie : if he will do something for the Holy Land;" encouraging him to visit Jerusalem.
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