BIB_ID
80594
Accession number
MA 9052.1
Creator
Boyd, Alice, 1825-1897.
Display Date
1896 January 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages); 17.7 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.
Engraved letterhead: "Penkill Castle, / Girvan, / Ayrshire."
On mourning stationery.
Engraved letterhead: "Penkill Castle, / Girvan, / Ayrshire."
On mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that she was pleased to hear that he has begun work on a biography of John Nichol, the first Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, and a mutal friend; writing that she has found four letters from Nichol in her possession, three written to William Bell Scott and one to her; promising to look further and to send him any other letters she may find; mentioning that she was very interested in Knight's biographical introduction to "Literature of the Georgian Era," by the scholar William Minto, another mutual friend; writing that "It has given me heartfelt pleasure to know that you are among those who were attracted in early life by the works of the two brothers David & W. B. Scott, the latter being my very dearest friend"; adding that she has heard from Professor Minto about Knight's recent visit to see him in Aberdeen, "so that altogether I do not feel like a stranger."
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