BIB_ID
401750
Accession number
MA 8861.39
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
1906 October 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.6 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.
Embossed letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ Pall Mall,/ S.W."
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph signature and salutation, as well as a few autograph corrections.
Embossed letterhead: "4, Carlton Gardens,/ Pall Mall,/ S.W."
Marked "Dictated" and "Private".
With autograph signature and salutation, as well as a few autograph corrections.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Concerning a collection of his speeches: "There are no doubt many things in my Speeches which it would be convenient to have in a permanent form, but the speeches themselves are always delivered without any verbal preparation, with the inevitable result that the style in point of finish leaves a very great deal to be desired. I should be reluctant to issue them uncorrected; and the work of correction would be long and infinitely wearisome."
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