BIB_ID
409326
Accession number
MA 9256.32
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1873] August 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 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 refers to Knight's trip to Switzerland. In MA 9256.31, dated June 14th Carpenter discusses at length Knight's travels in the Alps and also refers to Matthew Arnold's new book, "Literature and Dogma" which was published in 1873, thus suggesting that this letter and the four preceding letters, MA 9256.28-31 were all written in 1873 as they all reference Knight's travels in the Alps.
Written from "7 Lifton Place / Leeds."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to Knight's trip to Switzerland. In MA 9256.31, dated June 14th Carpenter discusses at length Knight's travels in the Alps and also refers to Matthew Arnold's new book, "Literature and Dogma" which was published in 1873, thus suggesting that this letter and the four preceding letters, MA 9256.28-31 were all written in 1873 as they all reference Knight's travels in the Alps.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his hope that he is safely home from his trip to Switzerland with a "rich store of delightful memories, and also, as I hope, of physical and mental vigour. One can only, alas, see snow mountains once for the first time: but what a world of new experience is crowded into a short time. You have, no doubt, however, scaled some of the higher summits, & realised afresh the 'sentiment of being' which seems to dwell peculiarly on mountain tops. Much of certainty comes to me through nature: and one has precious 'hours of visitation' for which one cannot be too thankful among the hills;" asking when his "...new Church will be opened. I hope to arrange for a ten days holiday after the British Association meeting at Bradford in September: and if the opening of your church were to fall about that period - the last week in September or the first in October, as you hinted to me, it would be a great pleasure to me to be present, and have an opportunity of hearing your leading men. Your trust deed, I suppose, is free, like the old Presbyterians. We celebrate this autumn the bicentenary of the opening of Mill Hill Chapel. Our forefathers were nearer to the Westminster Confession than to us: but had the spiritual insight to trust in truth; we benefit by their faithfulness."
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