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Auction: 329 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 939

Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour. KG, OM, PC, DL (July 25, 1848 - March 19, 1930). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from July 1902 to December 1905. He later became Foreign Secretary. TLS. 8vo. September 26, 1921. On League of Nations letterhead with outstanding, clear stamp imprimatur with Royal shield at the top. Geneve, Switzerland. To Sir Henry Newbolt, author of "On Poetry," Taken from the Enemy." Lord Balfour thanks Newbolt for sending him a copy of his book. Very good condition. Included is an undated photograph of Lord Balfour. Balfour wrote what is now known as the Balfour Declaration, a letter dated November 2, 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. That letter expressed the British views on the establishment in Palestine of a home for the Jewish people, and it later was incorporated into the Mandate for Palestine.

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