BIB_ID
409353
Accession number
MA 9256.41
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1878] February 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.1 x 9.6 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.
Carpenter was a professor of ecclesiastical history, comparative religion and Hebrew at Manchester New College from 1869-1875 and lived in Hampstead during those years.
Written from "4 Oppidan's Road / London, NW."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to his upcoming marriage. He married Alice Mary Buckton (1854-1931) on July 12, 1878.
Carpenter was a professor of ecclesiastical history, comparative religion and Hebrew at Manchester New College from 1869-1875 and lived in Hampstead during those years.
Written from "4 Oppidan's Road / London, NW."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to his upcoming marriage. He married Alice Mary Buckton (1854-1931) on July 12, 1878.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Acknowledging his note and the volume of his manuscript lectures; expressing concern for Knight's "indisposition"; relating news of his work, his plans to marry at the end of the session and travel to the Alps in July, "...if we are not at war with half Europe - which Heaven forbid - to make our way by slow and zigzag paths to Switzerland;" commenting on a visit with a mutual friend and his recommendations to them for schools for their children; concluding with the news that Dr. Martineau is well and the comment that "We await with great anxiety the movements of Government: but I trust that war will still be averted."
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