BIB_ID
401650
Accession number
MA 8861.2
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1881 January 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 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.
Embossed letterhead: "Whittinghame/ Prestonkirk." On the left side: "Station: East Linton, N.B. Ry."
Paper pasted along the right side of the first page obscures some of the text.
Embossed letterhead: "Whittinghame/ Prestonkirk." On the left side: "Station: East Linton, N.B. Ry."
Paper pasted along the right side of the first page obscures some of the text.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning an article that Balfour intends to write on "Berkeley" (probably referring to the philosopher George Berkeley); discussing the proposed volume on John Stuart Mill for Knight's series; writing that "Nothing ought to be published till we have Bain's Life of him".
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