BIB_ID
401644
Accession number
MA 8863
Creator
Balfour, Betty, Lady, 1867-1942.
Display Date
1896 December 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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.
The article to which Lady Balfour refers is "The Poetry of the Earl of Lytton" by George Saintsbury and appeared in "The Forum", volume XXII, September 1896-February 1897, pp. 467-482.
Written on stationery engraved "Whittingehame, / Prestonkirk, N.B. / Sta. East Linton, N.B.R. / Tel: Stenton."
The article to which Lady Balfour refers is "The Poetry of the Earl of Lytton" by George Saintsbury and appeared in "The Forum", volume XXII, September 1896-February 1897, pp. 467-482.
Written on stationery engraved "Whittingehame, / Prestonkirk, N.B. / Sta. East Linton, N.B.R. / Tel: Stenton."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Sending him a copy of "The Wanderer" and a copy of "Selections" and apologizing for her "broken promise" to send them much earlier; asking if he had "...read Prof. Saintsbury's article on his [her father's] poems in the Dec: number of the 'Forum' & if so what you thought of it. So far as I know my Father never wrote a poem on Wordsworth - but if he did it is not among the published works known to me."
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