BIB_ID
409184
Accession number
MA 9252.2
Creator
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Display Date
1875 October 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 19.1 x 11.7 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.
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the University of London and the address: "University of London, / Burlington Gardens, W."
In the letterhead, the century has been pre-printed and Carpenter has filled out the rest of the date by hand.
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the University of London and the address: "University of London, / Burlington Gardens, W."
In the letterhead, the century has been pre-printed and Carpenter has filled out the rest of the date by hand.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot help Knight; writing that he feels "increasingly the need of limiting my engagements"; mentioning that he declined to be nominated for the Rectorship of Aberdeen, "to which (it was represented to me) a majority of the Students present at a recent Meeting were desirous of electing me."
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