BIB_ID
401733
Accession number
MA 8861.34
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1903 September 30.
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 black-and-white embossed seal of the First Lord of the Treasury.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
On mourning stationery. Balfour's uncle and the former Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, had died on August 22, 1903.
With autograph salutation and signature.
On stationery with embossed letterhead reading "10, Downing Street,/ Whitehall, S.W." and the black-and-white embossed seal of the First Lord of the Treasury.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
On mourning stationery. Balfour's uncle and the former Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, had died on August 22, 1903.
With autograph salutation and signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking Knight for sending him a proof copy of his paper "Reciprocity in Trade" and for his "kind note of the 24th."
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