[1st Duke of Westminster [Henry Lupus Grosvenor, as Marquis of Westminster.] Secretarial Hand, Signed in Autograph, granting his assent to a Major of the 1st Lancashire Engineer Volunteers, for the regiment to join ‘The New Brighton Parade’.

The founder of the greatest of London’s ‘Great Estates’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 4to. In good condition, on light-grey paper, with thin neat strip of windowpane mount adhering to edges. Folded three times for postage. Good firm signature ‘Westminster’, and with the name of the recipient neatly cut away: ‘Major <...> / 1st Lancashire Eng[ee]r. Vol[un]t[ee]rs. / Liverpool.’ Neatly written, and reading: ‘Sir, / I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter by to-days post, and on account of the shortness of the notice I write at once to return my assent to your application for your Corps to attend The New Brighton Parade on the 7th. inst. / I have the honor to be / Your obedt Servant / Westminster’.