BIB_ID
401691
Accession number
MA 8861.12
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1888 October 8.
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: "Whittinghame/ Prestonkirk." On the left side: "Station: East Linton, N.B. Ry."
Marked "Private".
Embossed letterhead: "Whittinghame/ Prestonkirk." On the left side: "Station: East Linton, N.B. Ry."
Marked "Private".
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing that he will take into account what Knight has said of "Mr. Evans" but that he has heard nothing of a "probable vacancy" at present; discussing the volume on John Stuart Mill for Knight's series and his reservations about it: "I should be glad, as I always told you, to make some attempt on it, but in or out of Office the claims on my time are likely to be so heavy that I feel I ought not to give any pledge to the Publisher or to you on the subject... I should be unwilling that either you or he should think that I had raised expectations which I was unable to fulfil."
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