BIB_ID
409193
Accession number
MA 9252.4
Creator
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Display Date
1879 November 29.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 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 blind embossed letterhead: "56 Regents Park Road, / London, N.W."
Carpenter's signature has been cut away from the letter, resulting in some loss of text.
On stationery with blind embossed letterhead: "56 Regents Park Road, / London, N.W."
Carpenter's signature has been cut away from the letter, resulting in some loss of text.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a Council meeting and his decision to stand as a candidate for an office for which Dr. Richardson (possibly Benjamin Ward Richardson) is also standing: "I do not stand against him, but allow myself to be nominated to fill what is virtually a vacancy"; writing that he is glad to find that his "qualifications for the Office should be so highly estimated"; asking Dr. Pettigrew (possibly J. Bell Pettigrew) to send a copy of an earlier letter and the second paragraph from this one to Richardson.
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