BIB_ID
409292
Accession number
MA 9256.21
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
1902 December 15
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 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 resignation from St. Andrews; saying "I trust that it does not mean that uncertainties of health & the abundance of recent cares have made your professorial duties too laborious for you. At any rate, the freedom which release from the lecturer's labour will bring you, will I trust, enable you to gather up the fruits of your thought into more permanent form. Your constant literary activity bewilders me: I find it so hard to get my tasks accomplished. I have sent on your letter to Miss G. Martineau. It interests me greatly to hear that you have a volume on Miss Swanwick in hand. I must think over my impressions & see what I can recall. Le me know the latest date by which they will be of any use to you."
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