BIB_ID
129444
Accession number
MA 8862
Creator
Balfour, Betty, Lady, 1867-1942.
Display Date
1896 July 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.0 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 blind-embossed with the seal of the House of Commons.
Written on stationery blind-embossed with the seal of the House of Commons.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for sending her copies of her father's letters to Professor Nichol; saying how much she likes Watt's portrait of her father saying "...it looks particularly well in its present place among the immortals;" thanking him for his invitation to St. Andrews and asking which volume of her father's poems he asked her to send him, "Was it the vol. of Selections - or the Old Wanderer in its new binding? Kindly let me know which volume you would like best."
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