[Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and editor of Plato.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Lucas’ [the future Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas], regarding tutoring Lord Herbrand Russell [the future Duke of Bedford].

The 1880 'Balliol Masque' indicates Jowett's standing, and the pronunciation of his name: 'First come I. My name is Jowett. | There's no knowledge but I know it. | I am Master of this College, | What I don't know isn't knowledge.' See Jowett’s entry, and those of Lucas and Russell, in the Oxford DNB, which states regarding Jowett that by the end of his life he had become ‘synonymous with Balliol, which he turned into the leading college in the first university in the United Kingdom at the height of its world power’. 1p, 12mo. In good condition. Folded twice. A nice item, in Jowett’s close, controlled hand, with one impressively-unobtrusive erasure and correction. Begins: ‘My dear Lucas / Could you take Lord Herbrand Russell, second son of the Duke of Bedford, as a pupil in London for about a month during the Easter Vacation - to begin at once.’ Russell, who is ‘reading for Pass Moderations’, need not take Lucas ‘more than an hour or two a day’. The matter is pressing, so Jowett asks to be telegraphed at Oxford. And if Lucas cannot take Russell himself, Jowett asks to be informed of ‘any one who can’.