BIB_ID
418972
Accession number
MA 9986.2
Creator
Davidson, Randall Thomas, 1848-1930.
Display Date
Biarritz, France, 1903 January 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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.
This letter is part of a small collection of four autograph letters signed from Bishop Davidson to Professor Knight. See also MA 9986.1, MA 9986.3 and MA 9986.4.
Written on a prayer card printed "Farnham Castle / Epiphany, / 1903 / "Brethren, pray for us" on the cover and on the inside printed excerpts from three prayers and an excerpt from a sermon delivered by Dr. Westcott at the consecration of Bishop Lightfoot on St. Mark's Day, 1877.
This letter is part of a small collection of four autograph letters signed from Bishop Davidson to Professor Knight. See also MA 9986.1, MA 9986.3 and MA 9986.4.
Written on a prayer card printed "Farnham Castle / Epiphany, / 1903 / "Brethren, pray for us" on the cover and on the inside printed excerpts from three prayers and an excerpt from a sermon delivered by Dr. Westcott at the consecration of Bishop Lightfoot on St. Mark's Day, 1877.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him "...for an exceedingly kind letter. I hope, ere now, that the King has thanked you for the book which I duly transmitted to him ere I left England."
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