BIB_ID
401738
Accession number
MA 8861.36
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1904 February 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.8 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. The Whitehall address has been crossed out, and "Brighton" written instead.
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. The Whitehall address has been crossed out, and "Brighton" written instead.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph salutation and signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Agreeing with Knight that "there could not be a better man than [Samuel] Butcher for the post you mention"; commenting, however, that "he is not a T.C.D. man" (probably, Trinity College, Dublin) and that "I think the College would regard the introduction of an outsider -- even though an Irishman, and an Irishman of Butcher's ability & charm -- as something in the nature of an insult. It is a great pity."
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