BIB_ID
409284
Accession number
MA 9256.19
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
1901 September 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Written on stationery embossed "109, Banbury Road, / Oxford."
Written on stationery embossed "109, Banbury Road, / Oxford."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning Knight's collection of Martineau letters and the desire of Manchester College to form a collection of Martineau manuscripts; saying that the College does not have sufficient funds to purchase Knight's collection but if Knight would give him a valuation, he would try "...to facilitate the settlement;" saying that he will be traveling for two months but will be in Scotland in November and might be able to see Knight's collection; adding "It is grievous that the publication of "Inter Amicos" should have involved you in loss. I hope that the sale may still be such as to protect you from being actually out of pocket. The volume is most interesting: for the contents have not in any way grown old in the 30 years since they were first penned."
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