BIB_ID
401745
Accession number
MA 8861.37
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1905 August 31.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.7 x 11.8 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 "Whittingehame" 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 "Whittingehame" written instead.
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph salutation and signature.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Telling Knight he is glad that the "course I have taken with regard to the Grant" meets with his approval; thanking him for his "kind references to my leadership of the Party"; reminding him of his promise to send copies of any new books that Knight has in the press.
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