1924 (10 Dec), typewritten letter, England, signed "BALFOUR" (Lord Arthur James Balfour was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. Later, as Foreign Secretary, he was notable for the Balfour Declaration in 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild affirming the government's support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire).