BIB_ID
418447
Accession number
MA 9916.5
Creator
Crawford, Donald, 1837-1919.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1896 January 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 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.
Crawford lists a place of writing that appears to be "17, Melville [St?] / Edin," an address in Edinburgh he is associated with.
Part of a collection of seven letters from Donald Crawford to William Angus Knight, written between 1887 and 1896. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9916.1-7).
Crawford lists a place of writing that appears to be "17, Melville [St?] / Edin," an address in Edinburgh he is associated with.
Part of a collection of seven letters from Donald Crawford to William Angus Knight, written between 1887 and 1896. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9916.1-7).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that until he entered Parliament, he kept hardly any letters, but for the last ten years he has kept many, stored in London; saying that he received some interesting letters from Nichol (probably John Nichol) over the years and, though he is not sanguine about the prospect of finding any of them, he will try; adding "Pray don't dub me Sheriff...".
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