BIB_ID
409270
Accession number
MA 9256.14
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
1897 December 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.5 x 12.5 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.
Written on stationery engraved "Manchester College / Oxford."
Written on stationery engraved "Manchester College / Oxford."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning Knight's candidacy at Harvard; saying "When the time of your departure is fixed, I will gladly do what I can to reopen negotiation at Harvard. My correspondence with President Eliot last year led me to suppose that he would forward you an invitation. I heard nothing more & never knew whether you had crossed the Atlantic or not....I gathered from President Eliot last year that their ordinary lecture fee was limited to $35. Harvard is by no means a wealthy university, & according to the American scale its professors are notoriously underpaid;" suggesting that Knight consider bequeathing his correspondence with Martineau and suggesting that the Library of Manchester College would be the logical repository "...considering Dr. Martineau's long connection with this College, & the fact that his great philosophical treatises were originally delivered as lectures within it...We are receiving an increasing number of literary & artistic gifts. The Misses Froude gave us a valuable bust of Carlyle. Next year the Martineau Statue will be placed here. Would not the letters be accessible to a wider public here than simply in the family cupboards?"
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