autograph letter signed to unnamed correspondent

British statesman, several times Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (DNB). Intimate and interesting communication beginning 'I have only time to say in answer to your obliging note, that I shall be most happy to take you by the hand as soon as is convenient to you, as I trust in God that my poor wife after a most severe fever is this day beginning to recover. As to Dr 's business I can say distinctly, that I know you to have been most scandalously & I fear wickedly used by that very wicked man his elder brother' and ending with postscript 'If you see Bernard pray let him know that I shall be glad to see him.' (Perhaps Sir Thomas Bernard (DNB))