BIB_ID
401722
Accession number
MA 8861.27
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1901 January 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.8 x 12.3 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 "Chatsworth" written instead, perhaps referring to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
On mourning stationery.
With autograph signature and significant autograph additions.
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 "Chatsworth" written instead, perhaps referring to Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.
On mourning stationery.
With autograph signature and significant autograph additions.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for sending him a copy of his book "Lord Monboddo and some of his contemporaries".
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