Autograph letter signed : London, to William Angus Knight, 1882 April 5.

Asking if Knight would like to undertake an examinership in history and political economy for the University of New Zealand; mentioning that Professor [Henry Alleyne] Nicholson can tell Knight more about it, since Carpenter had nominated him two years earlier for the natural sciences examinership; adding that the examinership had been previously held by Jevons (probably William Stanley Jevons), but he has given it up "on account of some change that has been made in the mode of renumeration"; explaining that he had originally set up the examinership and then handed it over to [Henry Nottidge] Moseley, "who was appointed to the Assistant Registrarship of the University of London. He is now transferred to a Professorship at Oxford, and wishes to give up the job; and I have taken it in charge temporarily, as, if my Son W[illia]m settles in London, he will be very glad to do the work"; describing the terms of payment and other aspects of the examinership; writing that he is sorry that his son William Lant Carpenter still holds out hope for the principalship of University College Dundee, "as it seems clear to me that he has not the qualifications required for a Professorship of any kind, and they are scarcely likely to make an Office expressly for him, -- especially considering his heterodoxy -- He would make an excellent general manager and organizer; but the Principal of such an Institution sh[oul]d, I think, be one to whom the Professors would look up."