File 616 - Arthur Balfour's Romanes Lectures

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Add. MS a/616

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Arthur Balfour's Romanes Lectures

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  • 1909 (Creation)

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24 pp; 48 pp; 65 lines of MS on both sides of folded buff envelope; custom made blue cloth folder; news-cutting; photograph.

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Balfour, Arthur James (1848-1930), 1st Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister and philosopher
(1848-1930)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Inscription on front wrapper of report on lecture, '1st Form as delivered and subsequently with [illeg.] ' by George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon; Ownership inscription on front wrapper of Criticism and Beauty 'Curzon 1910'. Book-labels of John Sparrow on blue cloth folder.

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Purchased from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers, July 2020.

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Consists of brief notes for the lecture, 24 Nov 1909, the lecture as first published as Questionings on Criticism and Beauty (1909), which was subsequently withdrawn and Criticism and Beauty, a lecture rewritten (published 1910). With a news-cutting from the Daily Telegraph reporting the lecture and a photograph of Balfour.

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