BIB_ID
401715
Accession number
MA 8861.23
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1894 October 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 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.
Letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ London, S.W." On the left side: "Dictated." The London address has been crossed out and "Bradbury's Private Hotel, North Berwick" given instead.
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and corrections.
Letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ London, S.W." On the left side: "Dictated." The London address has been crossed out and "Bradbury's Private Hotel, North Berwick" given instead.
Marked "Private".
With autograph signature and corrections.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Saying that he is "keenly interested in Professor James Seth's Candidature, and have done, and would do, anything in my power to secure him the vacant chair at Aberdeen"; regretting that Seth was not hired by St. Andrews; writing, however, that it is impossible for him to appeal directly to George Trevelyan (Secretary of State for Scotland) in this matter, and he must confine his efforts "to doing what I can in other directions."
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