Autograph Letter Signed "T. Belsham", to Robert Philips, Esq.

Author: 
Thomas Belsham.
Publication details: 
Essex Street, 15 Dec. 1822.
£156.00
SKU: 4375

Unitarian Divine (see DNB). Two pages, 4to, blank leaf conjoint crudely trimmed with no loss, mainly good condition. He thanks himn for a present of game and discusses health and weather. He then talks about rumours of war and Wellington saying that, as a Spanish grandee, any nation attacking Spain would find him at the head of Spanish troops. He passes on gossip that the King wants to marry a daughter of Lady Conyngham but "that the Chancellor & some others have entered demurrers - it is supected however that rather than give up their places they will give up their objections [underlined] . I wish they may: & that we nay have a prince of Wales: for I have no great fancy to any of the present heirs presumptive." He's sorry he couldn't pay a visit while in Lancashire but he was "poorly". News of friends.