Autograph Letter Signed ('Newcastle') from Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1811-1864), 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, declinging an invitation, and complaining of the effect of his public duties on his private affairs.

4pp., 12mo. 26 lines. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressing an unnamed male correspondent, he begins by declining his correspondent's 'kind invitation' to his visit his house, 'on the ground that has already compelled me to refuse similar hospitality on that occasion from Mr. Wright and others'. The Duke's 'public duties for the last two years' have 'completely prevented any serious attention' to his private affairs', and he is 'now obliged to avail myself of every possible occasion for looking after them - and for this purpose I have made arrangements to meet my Agents & others at the Hotel on the 2d. May'.