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ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (1848-1930) English Prime Minister; remembered for Balfour Declaration (1917...

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ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (1848-1930) English Prime Minister; remembered for Balfour Declaration (1917...
ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR (1848-1930) English Prime Minister; remembered for Balfour Declaration (1917), favoring establishment of Palestine as national home for Jewish people. LS, 4pp, June 30, 1898, 8vo, 10 Downing Street imprinted stationary, to G McCall, marked "Private", interesting content. In part, "...I observe...one important difference as to matters of fact between the writer and myself. I do not believe that the writings of Nietzsche have produced in this country the effect attributed to them....the majority of us...regard them as a fin de siecle curiosity of much literary interest..." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher and poet, who espoused the doctrine of perfectibility of man through forcible self-assertion. Some soiling, o/w VG. Nice letter. $150-250