BIB_ID
409305
Accession number
MA 9256.25
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1878?] September 25.
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.
The year of writing is not given, however it appears he was recently married which may indicate the year of writing was 1878.
The signature has been excised.
Written from "North Hill, Roundhay, / nr. Leeds." Carpenter's father-in-law, George Buckton, was the minister at Roundhay, Leeds.
Carpenter served as minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds from 1869-1975.
Carpenter and Alice Mary Buckton (1854-1931) were married on July 12, 1878.
The year of writing is not given, however it appears he was recently married which may indicate the year of writing was 1878.
The signature has been excised.
Written from "North Hill, Roundhay, / nr. Leeds." Carpenter's father-in-law, George Buckton, was the minister at Roundhay, Leeds.
Carpenter served as minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds from 1869-1975.
Carpenter and Alice Mary Buckton (1854-1931) were married on July 12, 1878.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing at length the young woman he married; saying "For my sojourn at the Lakes marks for me a new era and all its incidents are stamped on my remembrance. It was there, I may tell you now, that I asked Alice Buckton to become my wife, & there that she consented. But it came to her at first as so new and strange that she wished for a brief time in which to dwell on it in silence: so we put off the communication of our secret to our friends till my engagements at the Festival and at Mill Hill should be over, and we could be once more together. I would that you had seen more of her, to know something of her purity, her sweet fresh brightness, so full of charm to a student like myself, who never had a sister and long desired yet felt almost too much awed to seek a woman's confidence. I do not wish to play Casaubon to her Dorothea, whose ardour & enthusiasm she largely possesses: I feel as if I had still some youth left, and trust that she will not find me too hopelessly addicted to books. So when you pay us your promised visit next summer you will find another companion in my home;" relating news of "...the condition of my friend David" who "...fell over the bannister in a fainting fit on to the hall floor below" but who appears to be doing better with no injury to his brain; sending his regards to Mrs. Knight and their children.
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