BIB_ID
409370
Accession number
MA 9256.49
Creator
Carpenter, J. Estlin (Joseph Estlin), 1844-1927.
Display Date
[1901?] August 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 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 on stationery engraved "Sleningford Park, / Ripon."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to negotiations with Knight over his Martineau letters and his efforts to raise money for the Ministers' Pension Fund. Carpenter discusses both issues in a letter dated January 19, 1902 (see MA 9256.20) which may possibly date this letter to 1901.
Written on stationery engraved "Sleningford Park, / Ripon."
The year of writing is not given, however, Carpenter refers to negotiations with Knight over his Martineau letters and his efforts to raise money for the Ministers' Pension Fund. Carpenter discusses both issues in a letter dated January 19, 1902 (see MA 9256.20) which may possibly date this letter to 1901.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the Crabb Robinson Fresco; saying he does not know the date of the fresco but F.J. Jones, Secretary to the Williams Trust, "which now owns the building, could find out the facts. I never heard of any engraving: but possibly some photographic reproduction might be secured, though the fresco has already sadly decayed;" telling him he is busy raising funds for the Ministers' Pension Fund and is unable to also attempt to raise money to "...secure the [Martineau] letters for Manchester College, if you were minded to place them there."
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