[Sir Wentworth Dilke [Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 1st Baronet], Whig politician.] Autograph Letter Signed asking the recipient to resend references to Lord Campbell and the ‘Carlton Pamphlets’.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. Signed ‘W Dilke’. Embossed armorial letterhead of a falcon. The recipient is not named. In good condition, lightly aged, neatly inserted in trimmed windowpane mount. Twice folded for postage. Thirteen lines of text in his distinctive close backwards-leaning hand. The hand is not entirely straightforward, and what follows is a tentative reading. Begins: ‘My dear Sir / You were kind enough to send me, when down at Tenby, a copy of the little Paper of the Ind Cotton Essay of Norman - and in another letter to notice that Lord Campbell had quoted in a speech at Dunning a passage from one of the Carlton Pamphlets.’ He explains why he cannot find the letters, and asks him to resend the reference to Campbell’.