BIB_ID
130582
Accession number
MA 1617.7
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
London, England, 1891 December 14.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 12.2 cm
Notes
This letter is one of four letters from Arthur Balfour to W. E. Henley (MA 1617.7-10) and part of large collection of manuscripts and letters written by and to William Ernest Henley.
Written from "4 Carlton Gardens / S.W." on stationery engraved "10 Downing Street, / Whitehall." The Downing Street address has been crossed through.
This letter is marked "Private."
Written from "4 Carlton Gardens / S.W." on stationery engraved "10 Downing Street, / Whitehall." The Downing Street address has been crossed through.
This letter is marked "Private."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "Pray allow me to thank you for your splendid gift of the "Lyra Heroica". I have not had time to do more as yet than glance at the selection, but the work of compilation must come easy to one who like yourself has done such admirable original work as critic and as poet."
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