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MS 891

Author

Title

Autograph draft of a despatch to Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, His Majesty's Ambassador at Washington, respecting the Allied Note of 10 January 1917.

Edition

[Draft]

Publication, distribution, etc.

London, 1917.

Physical description

25 leaves, bound ; 25 cm.

Note

Autograph draft of despatch entirely in Balfour's holograph, with corrections and "second thoughts". The draft is written on the recto of Foreign Office paper with the exception of 6 pages which are on notepaper headed "Panshanger, Hertford".

Note

Photograph of Balfour at a tennis tournament in 1921-22 loosely inserted.

Note

Printed copy of the despatch inserted in pocket at end of volume.

Provenance

Presentation inscription in unidentified hand on flyleaf: "presented to Sir Ian Malcolm by the author". Malcolm accompanied Balfour's War Commission to the United States in 1917 and was also Balfour's secretary at the Peace Conference, Paris in 1919.

Binding

Maroon morocco ; gilt inside borders ; marbled endpapers ; bound by Rivière.

Subject

World War, 1914-1918.

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Riviere & Son binder.

Added entry--place

England London.

Identifier

B38916
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