BIB_ID
424655
Accession number
MA 22966.15
Creator
Fraser, Alexander Campbell, 1819-1914.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1880 December 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 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.
Endorsed.
Written from "20 Chester St. Edinburgh."
Endorsed.
Written from "20 Chester St. Edinburgh."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Reporting that he continues to correct proofs of the last two chapters of 'Berkeley' and "I have still about three pages of a winding up to add to the last chapter. I shall still be grateful for your remarks after you have seen the revise in sheets. I have strongly recommended the Series, as well as Descartes, to my students, about 215, & have made 'Descartes' the subject of my second essay in the class, w'h I hear at Blackwood's has caused a considerable demand for Mahaffy. Could you not write to each Logic & Moral Philosophy Professor in Scotland to recommend the 'Series' to their students - also to Oxford, Cambridge, [illegible] & Dublin...All are bound to support you, & an organized effort of this Sort, early in the year, might induce many, students & others, to take the Series. Special efforts might also be used to make it [illegible] on the Continent, & in America. The American demand might become indefinitely great, I can fancy. I have referred to it in a letter I happened to be writing to Mr. Arthur Balfour, M.P. today, & I hope you may secure him. I have pressed its claims on him."
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