Spencer & Gillen

A journey through Aboriginal Australia

Letter from W B Spencer to Mrs H Balfour 03/02/1914

Physical Description

03.02.1914. From B. S. (The Athenaeum London) to Mrs. B. Thanking the Balfours for a two days’ stay at their house in Headington. B. S. has been to Manchester, where they gave him a degree and a most gorgeous gown.

Primary Comments

Correspondence between W. Baldwin Spencer and Henry Balfour

Transcript

Letter from W B Spencer to Mrs H Balfour 03/02/1914 - Page 1

THE ATHENAEUM,
PALL MALL. S.W.
Feb. 3. 14.
Dear Mrs. Balfour,
I ought to have written to you before to thank you & Mr. Balfour for the two most delightful days that I have had in England. Many a time and oft I shall think of Headington & your delightful house & surroundings. Yesterday I was out beyond Leatherhead to see my old Professor, Sir Henry Roscoe & though the Downs were very beautiful, there was nothing equal to the

Letter from W B Spencer to Mrs H Balfour 03/02/1914 - Page 2

view from your windows.
Manchester after Oxford was something truly awful though of course I did not tell them so & they gave me a degree & a most gorgeous gown.
Kindest regards & many thanks to yourself & Mr Balfour. I only wish we could see you as well as him in Australia.
Yours very sincerely
W. Baldwin Spencer.

Rights: Pitt Rivers Museum

Document Details

Date Made
03/02/1914
Region
Pall Mall
State
London, England

Document Details

Letter To
Balfour, Henry

Institution

Institution
Pitt Rivers Museum
Registration
PRM4Balfour_11