BIB_ID
401732
Accession number
MA 8861.33
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1903 March 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.7 x 12 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 "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 "Private".
With autograph salutation and signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for sending him his "Collection of Writings in praise of St. Andrews" (perhaps referring to "Andreapolis; being writings in praise of St. Andrews", edited by Knight and published in 1903).
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