Letter from A.C. Fraser, Edinburgh, to William Angus Knight, 1880 November 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Reporting on the timing of the delivery of the three parts of his Berkeley manuscript to the printer; saying "In this way the volume might be published in January. Might not December be time enough for Descartes - even Jan. 1 - the vol. being issued however before or about Christmas-day? In that case, Berkeley would be time enough in the end of January, & in the meantime you could have the succeeding volumes so far advanced as to issue them at short regular intervals during 1881. I saw today at Blackwood's proposed boards for the vols. of the Philosophical Series - & especially admired one in red - imitation of Russia leather. I have seen nothing so good in any of that class of works. I am very sanguine that by cordial & active cooperation of all concerned, this Blackwood Philosophical Series may be a great success. It may be well to have the Berkeley out at any rate some considerable time before the end of the Session here - to get it circulated among students. I am very full of College work & arrears of business which accumulated during my delay in England;" saying that his daughter Carrie has been weak since they brought her to Edinburgh; adding "...she suffered less than we feared in the journey, but she has been very weak since - able to take short drives, but not to walk or engage in even the easiest work. We hope for a gradual, but necessarily very slow return to her former state - but cannot yet see much light;" adding, in a postscript, "Poor Lady Richardson is gone! We saw her a day or two before she left."