BIB_ID
429628
Accession number
MA 23289.39
Creator
Heard, William Augustus, Rev., 1847-1921.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, before 1885 October 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The year of writing is not provided however Rev. Heard was Master of Carrington House, Fettes College until 1885 when he left to take a position at the Westminster School, London as House Master. He would return as Principal of Fettes College in January, 1890.
Written from "Carrington House / Fettes College / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
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 "Carrington House / Fettes College / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Asking him for a recommendation for a vacant position; saying "I do not know whether I shall stand again; but from what I hear it is almost useless to send in Testimonials as I did before without some other recommendation. What I have been most anxious to get was a private statement on the questions of orders. It is impossible for a candidate to say much himself. I have been reluctant to take orders in the Episcopal Ch. of Scotland which knows so little of the spirit of your bishops; but I should hail with delight an opportunity of being ordained in the English Church to which I have all my life belonged. I feel competent to look into every chance that presents itself in my profession for it is difficult to calculate what this commission may do to us. Even if the scheme is not subversive, & they do not subsequently concede to agitation...the very suspicion of an alteration of social status would go far with many of our supporters;" adding, in a postscript, "I would rather this matter were not mentioned in St. Andrews."
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