BIB_ID
418936
Accession number
MA 9979.6
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1894 January 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 21.2 x 13.7 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 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).
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
Returning the George Croom Robertson letters Knight had lent her; saying that she has extracted certain sentences from them and may add them to her memoir of Robertson; writing that she has been busy with other work and has only just begun considering the notes from Robertson's lectures (see MA 9979.4 for background): "At present I am collating 19 series of psychological notes covering with gaps a period of 21 years, Dr. J.N. Keynes's [possibly John Neville Keynes] being the first;" saying that she aims to produce first a sort of "composite photograph" of the collection in order to reproduce "a psychological course (followed by the courses on Logic &c.) which shall be typical & representative of his teaching;" asking for Knight's advice on the project; describing her plans for the rest of the year and saying that she expects to go mountaineering for six weeks in August and September; thanking him for the letters and for his encouragement.
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