BIB_ID
401720
Accession number
MA 8861.25
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1898 December 15.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 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 embossed letterhead reading "10, Downing Street,/ Whitehall, S.W." and the blind embossed seal of the First Lord of the Treasury. The address has been crossed out and "Knowsley" written instead, perhaps referring to Knowsley Hall near Liverpool.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph signature.
On stationery with embossed letterhead reading "10, Downing Street,/ Whitehall, S.W." and the blind embossed seal of the First Lord of the Treasury. The address has been crossed out and "Knowsley" written instead, perhaps referring to Knowsley Hall near Liverpool.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight that there should be no difficulty about the introduction he has asked for, and that he has written to the Foreign Office and asked them to communicate directly with Knight.
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