BIB_ID
401660
Accession number
MA 8861.8
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1886 November 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 19 x 12.1 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.
On stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Dover House/ Whitehall, S.W.". This has been crossed out and replaced with "4 Carlton Gardens".
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature.
On stationery with embossed letterhead reading "Dover House/ Whitehall, S.W.". This has been crossed out and replaced with "4 Carlton Gardens".
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure that "the Members of St. Andrews University are not opposed to the decision which has been come to by the students" (regarding Balfour's election as Lord Rector of St. Andrews); writing "I can assure you that I feel the honour to be a great one, and there are few marks of regard which any Section of my fellow-countrymen could give me which I should rate at a higher value."
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