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(PRIME MINISTERS--UK.) BALFOUR, ARTHUR JAMES. Group of 4 letters, each Signed, in full or "A.J.B.," to various recipients, including three ALsS and a LS, on various subjects, including a discussion of a philosophical article he intends to contribute to the Hibbert Journal [published in that journal's October 1911 issue: "Creative Evolution and Philosophic Doubt"]. Together 13 pages, 8vo or 12mo; minor scattered staining to 1892 letter, remnants of hinging at upper edge of page of 1911 letter. (SFC) London or Bad Gastein, 1892-1911
26 June 1892, to "Dear Duchess": "I am very glad indeed to hear of yr success in finding a suitable model . . . . I should love to see your work as soon as you think the profane crowd may be admitted to it! "In the meanwhile I venture to send you a book on anatomy for artists [not present], what you probably know already but which in case you do not may interest you. . . . It is the best book on the subject. . . ." 20 March 1895, LS, to Reverend Hensley Henson: ". . . I need hardly add that every effort will be made by the Conservative Party to resist the further progress of the measure for the Disestablishment to Disendowment of the Church in Wales." 15 August 1911, to editor of the Hibbert Journal L.P Jacks: "I think I shall have something ready for you . . . . I shall be able to turn it to account in the shape of an introduction 'Philosophic Doubt', which I propose to reprint. "Yet I feel this great difficulty . . . . No one cares much about my particular point of view except myself: and in these cir[cumstanc]es to come before the world and ask them to consider [Henri] Bergson in relation to me--is more than my modesty can stand. . . ." Nd, to "the Clerk of the House of Lords": "Bloated official, battening on a too credulous country, and squandering amid the dissipations of a foreign capital the toil-worn pittance of the groaning taxpayer: when meanest thou to return to the scene of thy duties (not of thy labours) to devote such payments of time as can be spared from the more serious (!) desk occupations of my misspent life to the service of the long-suffering Public (with a capital P). I am here till Monday; lunch or dine, or five o'clock tea, any day except Sat when I dine out."
