BIB_ID
190204
Accession number
MA 8734.1
Creator
Abbott, Evelyn, 1843-1901.
Display Date
circa 1897.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.5 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.
Abbott notes at the top of the letter that his "address after Friday" will be Skelfhill, Hawick, N.B. (Scotland).
The letter is undated, but appears to be from the period when Abbott was working on his "Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett" (published 1897).
Abbott notes at the top of the letter that his "address after Friday" will be Skelfhill, Hawick, N.B. (Scotland).
The letter is undated, but appears to be from the period when Abbott was working on his "Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett" (published 1897).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking if Knight could show him Jowett's letters to Nichol after 1870, and saying that Knight's volume is interesting.
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