BIB_ID
401700
Accession number
MA 8861.16
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1891 September 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.7 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 the blind embossed seal of the Irish Office in Great Queen Street, S.W.
Place of writing given as "Bradbury's Private Hotel/ North Berwick".
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and emendations.
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the Irish Office in Great Queen Street, S.W.
Place of writing given as "Bradbury's Private Hotel/ North Berwick".
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and emendations.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for his book: "No work, could, in my judgment, be more valuable than tte [sic] kind of bibliographical survey which you have, so far as I am able to judge, so successfully carried out in reference to one branch of Philosophy"; telling him that he thinks it is unlikely he will ever write the volume on Mill ("I feel I am not in sufficient sympathy with either his philosophy, his theology, or his politics to be the proper person to deal with the subject"), but perhaps John Morley should be approached instead: "What say you to applying directly to him, and seeing whether he would carry out the views of those who have initiated this particular series?"
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