BIB_ID
409355
Accession number
MA 9256.42
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1878] October 24.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.1 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 on stationery engraved "4 Oppidan's Road / Primrose Hill Road, N.W."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to his work on his aunt's correspondence which he hopes to publish. His aunt, Mary Carpenter, died June 14, 1877 and Macmillan and Company would publish Carpenter's "The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter" in 1879.
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 on stationery engraved "4 Oppidan's Road / Primrose Hill Road, N.W."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to his work on his aunt's correspondence which he hopes to publish. His aunt, Mary Carpenter, died June 14, 1877 and Macmillan and Company would publish Carpenter's "The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter" in 1879.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing at length a book Carpenter misplaced and thought he had loaned to Knight; finding the book midway through the letter "...in an altogether improper corner of a study bookcase, hidden away behind a pile of others! I did not in my search take down every book in the library, but only hunted through all the cupboard shelves on wh. my notebooks live together as a happy family. How this vol. got detached from the rest & sent into retreat in isolated obscurity, I cannot tell! Pray forgive me for having caused you so much worry;" adding "I am slowly working thro' the map of my aunt's correspondence. Her private papers are very interesting: but I do not know how much it w'd be desirable to publish of these."
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