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Collection of autograph letters signed : Scotland and England, to William Angus Knight, 1894-1896 and undated.

BIB_ID
80549
Accession number
MA 9061.1-6
Creator
Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil), 1851-1935.
Display Date
1894-1896 and undated.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
6 items (17 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 5 autograph letters signed and 1 postcard signed, to William Angus Knight; written between 1894 and 1896 and possibly in other years, from Glasgow and several other locations in Scotland and England; discussing a memoir of John Nichol (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow) that Knight was in the process of writing and Bradley's memories of Nichol, to whose chair he had succeeded. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.