BIB_ID
418918
Accession number
MA 9979.4
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1893? December 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.1 x 9.8 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.
The year of writing is not given, but based on the contents of the letter and other letters in this collection, it may have been written in 1893, just after Rhys Davids (then Foley) had published a memoir of her psychology tutor George Croom Robertson in the journal Mind (see MA 9979.3 for background).
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
The year of writing is not given, but based on the contents of the letter and other letters in this collection, it may have been written in 1893, just after Rhys Davids (then Foley) had published a memoir of her psychology tutor George Croom Robertson in the journal Mind (see MA 9979.3 for background).
Signed with her maiden name.
On stationery with engraved letterhead: "56, Russell Square. / (London. W.C.)"
This collection, MA 9979, is comprised of eleven letters and postcards from Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids to William Angus Knight, written between 1892 and 1899. See the collection-level record for more information (MA 9979.1-11).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for offering to lend her letters by her "late master" (George Croom Robertson), as well as a letter by a former pupil of his; adding "But I am not contemplating any further biographical memoir of Robertson," as she understands that one is being prepared by Thomas Whittaker; saying that she mentioned to Professor Alexander Bain this spring that she intended to offer as her contribution to the project "some excerpts from my notes of his general course & from 2 or 3 special philosophical courses;" writing that, after encouragement by Knight and Professor Sully (possibly James Sully), she has been in touch with twenty-four or more past students of Robertson's, who have all sent her their notes; saying that this "mass of collatable material" may allow her to "reproduce adequately both his general course of 'Philosophy of Mind & Logic' & also the special courses on certain systems or epochs in philosophy such as he began to give from the year 1881;" adding that she is considering preparing a companion volume to Whittaker's, but she wanted to wait to see what she might be able to do with the material collected and also to consult with Knight and Sully; saying that if Knight would let her read "those Hobbes letters," she would be happy to send them on to Whittaker; writing "I can think of no subject I should more enjoy working at, than one of the series you contemplate. Just now I am working at Buddhist philosophy."
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