BIB_ID
418940
Accession number
MA 9979.7
Creator
Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys (Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys), 1857-1942.
Display Date
London, England, 1894 August 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 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.
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
Thanking him for his note on her return home from the mountains and saying that she is sorry to hear he is so burdened with work; describing in detail her ambitious climbing itinerary in Switzerland, Italy, and France, and adding "my guide mildly protested, but he enjoyed it amazingly;" describing ascents of the Matterhorn and the Weisshorn, among other mountains; saying that, while resting physically, she returned to her literary work immediately; listing the projects she has underway, including the translation of a German work on social science and her reconstruction of George Croom Robertson's psychology and philosophy courses; adding that she is not going to work on Robertson's courses on ethics and logics at present; mentioning that her marriage to T. W. Rhys Davids is not until the end of September and they leave for the United States on October 20th; promising to contribute a Buddhist volume to Knight's series.
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