BIB_ID
418928
Accession number
MA 9979.5
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1893 December 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 7.4 x 12.1 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.
Signed with initials ("CAF"), using her maiden name.
Written from "56, Russell Square," her address in London.
Written on a postcard with a pre-printed half penny stamp.
Addressed to: "Prof. Wm Knight &c &c / The University / St Andrews / NB."
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).
Signed with initials ("CAF"), using her maiden name.
Written from "56, Russell Square," her address in London.
Written on a postcard with a pre-printed half penny stamp.
Addressed to: "Prof. Wm Knight &c &c / The University / St Andrews / NB."
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 a loan (probably of the letters concerning George Croom Robertson discussed in MA 9979.4) and promising to send the materials back to Knight next month; commenting "It's a sad record of the fight against time & death."
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