BIB_ID
401748
Accession number
MA 8861.38
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1905 October 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.6 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. 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
Explaining that he has been in attendance on the King at Balmoral for the past week; responding to the idea of a collection of his principal speeches; explaining, however, that there is already a volume of his speeches on fiscal questions in preparation; commenting that "[t]he collection of them has brought home to me the fact that I have stated and re-stated my views upon this subject during the last five and twenty years more times than I care to think of! They will, I think, at all events, shew that my views are not open to the charge of inconsistency"; promising to send Knight a copy of the book when it is published.
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