BIB_ID
409185
Accession number
MA 9252.3
Creator
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Display Date
1879 March 6.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.5 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.
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the University of London.
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the University of London.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for the cordial response he made to "my Son's intimation" and writing that he looks forward to visiting him in St. Andrews; detailing his travel plans; assuring Knight that he need not put himself out "in regards to accommodation, as I am quite used to 'roughing it'"; discussing the train timetables.
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