BIB_ID
81544
Accession number
MA 9252.1-8
Creator
Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885.
Display Date
1873-1882.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
8 items (29 pages) ; various sizes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
A collection of 8 autograph letters signed, to William Angus Knight; written between 1873 and 1882 from London and Edinburgh; discussing Knight's break with the church, lectures on scientific subjects, and university appointments and examinations at St. Andrews, the University of London, the University of New Zealand and University College Dundee; referring to colleagues in academia, among them William Lant Carpenter, William Stanley Jevons, Henry Nottidge Moseley, Henry Alleyne Nicholson and Benjamin Ward Richardson. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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