BIB_ID
81514
Accession number
MA 9064.1-30
Creator
Breadalbane, Alma Imogen Graham, Marchioness of 1854-1932.
Display Date
1892-1901.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
30 items (92 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
Being a collection of 29 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph invitation from Lady Breadalbane to Professor William Angus Knight; concerning the application and subsequent progress of a young man, George Sellars, who studied for three years at St. Andrews. Sellars was raised in the orphanage in Kenmore founded by Lady Breadalbane. Letters in the collection have been described individually in thirty separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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