AUTOGRAPH LETTER, signed, to Revd Edward M. Townshend

by Arthur James Balfour

A$400 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

dated 6th December, 1900 on 10 Downing Street, London letterhead, marked 'Private', 'I have nothing to do with the question of recommending Bishops to Her Majesty, but I believe that the See of Exeter as already been filled up by a gentleman also a Cambridge Scholar of high distinction and breadth of view . . .' Single sheet of mourning paper 18.6 cm. x 24 cm. , folded to form four pages, written on two sides, with horizontal crease at centre, and with original mourning envelope addressed by

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