BIB_ID
401727
Accession number
MA 8861.30
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1902 June 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 12.2 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.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph salutation and 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.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph salutation and signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Writing that he is inclined to agree with Knight about "Baillie" (perhaps Sir James Black Baillie, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Aberdeen); telling Knight that his "Verses" have not arrived and asking for a copy.
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