BIB_ID
401658
Accession number
MA 8861.6
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1886 August 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 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: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ S.W."
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and emendations.
Embossed letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ S.W."
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and emendations.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for his congratulations on Balfour's appointment as Secretary of State for Scotland: "It is a great pleasure to me to have my Official work connected with my own Country; and it will afford me still further satisfaction if I am able to fulfil even a small fraction of the hopes which my appointment has raised among some of my Scotch friends"; promising to look into the Scotch Universities Bill.
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