BIB_ID
401755
Accession number
MA 8861.43
Creator
Balfour, Arthur James, 1848-1930.
Display Date
18-- [century only is known].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.7 x 12.1 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.
Written from "4 Carlton Gardens/ S.W."
With the blind embossed seal of the House of Commons Library.
On mourning stationery.
Given the stationery used, the fact that this was written by Balfour himself and not a secretary (all Balfour's letters to Knight from 1886 onwards are dictated), and the subject matter (see, for instance, MA 8861.2 and MA 8861.2), it seems most likely that this letter was written in 1880 or 1881.
Written from "4 Carlton Gardens/ S.W."
With the blind embossed seal of the House of Commons Library.
On mourning stationery.
Given the stationery used, the fact that this was written by Balfour himself and not a secretary (all Balfour's letters to Knight from 1886 onwards are dictated), and the subject matter (see, for instance, MA 8861.2 and MA 8861.2), it seems most likely that this letter was written in 1880 or 1881.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Discussing the possibility of writing a review of Professor Fraser's book on George Berkeley, which Balfour thinks "exceedingly highly of"; promising to put some thoughts together on the topic and send them to Knight.
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