| Description | New York, "Mr Wood has the pleasure to enclose a letter and write that a package of books is on board the Packet Cambria for the Earl of Dartmouth", with seal
Enclosure, Samuel L Knapp to William Wood, Brooklyn, 14 Jul 1830, New York, understands he is well acquainted "with the present Earl of Dartmouth, whose ancestor was the munificient patron of my Alma Mater Dartmouth College,and it is said, that the living Peer is worthy of his lineal honours", requests him to send to Lord Dartmouth, "Lectures on American literature" whose author "begun and finished the work in hours stolen from professional duties and those which should have been devoted to rest" |