BIB_ID
409357
Accession number
MA 9256.43
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1878] November 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; xx 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 thanks Knight for a book which appears to be Knight's first edition of "The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth" published in 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 on stationery engraved "4 Oppidan's Road / Primrose Hill Road, N.W."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter thanks Knight for a book which appears to be Knight's first edition of "The English Lake District as interpreted in the poems of Wordsworth" published in 1878.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for the "delightful little vol...with a fascinating suggestion of mountain & lake & all things beautiful. There is, alas, in the haste & press of our modern life so wide an interval between purpose & performance, that the completion of one of your literary projects anent Wordsworth came upon me with wholly unexpected surprise & satisfaction...The glimpses I have had into its pages make me long for the closer examination which must be made in the scenes themselves;" commenting on Dr. Martineau's address and the discussion of it in the Dutch Theological Review; adding that he is making steady progress on his aunt's correspondence and his work on Comparative Religion; saying "I am devoting such hours as I can snatch from other tasks to the study of Pali under Davids' guidance. It has many fascinations, the extreme interest of the literature being naturally chief - : I am not a philologist & care little for the question of its relation to Sanskrit: my chief desire is to investigate the sources of the most remarkable contrast & the most remarkable parallel to Christianity."
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