BIB_ID
409308
Accession number
MA 9256.27
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1869-1875] April 26.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.9 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 from "7 Lifton Place / Leeds."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter served as minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds from 1869-1975.
Written from "7 Lifton Place / Leeds."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter served as minister at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds from 1869-1975.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for the introductions he made for him in St. Andrews and relating news of his visits with the people he met; relating details of his travels after he left St. Andrews and continued on to Melrose, Dryburgh, and Durham; describing, in detail, the Cathedral at Durham; extending a dinner invitation on behalf of his parents and reiterating his pleasure at seeing him; concluding "Living alone, as I do, the glimpse of your home life was full of delight to me: such days remain long in my memory & I shall carry the tenderest recollections of your boy's prayer."
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