Autograph Letter Signed ('J R G Graham') to 'My dear Baron'.

Author: 
Sir James Graham [Sir James Robert George Graham] (1792-1861), Tory politician, Home Secretary in Sir Robert Peel's last administration
Publication details: 
17 December 1852; Grosvenor Place.
£28.00
SKU: 8582

12mo, 2 pp. Headed private. Good, on lightly aged and stained paper. Headed 'Private'. He thanks him for sending a 'Copy of a letter from he Prince to the late Duke of Wellington'. He will make 'limited and careful use' of the copy he has preserved with the recipient's permission. He considers that the letter 'redounds so much to the honour of the Prince and is so striking a proof of his self-denial, love of duty, and sound judgment, that it cannot be read without admiration and is a record of his wisdom and right feeling.' He praises the recipient as 'a Confidential Adviser and permanent Minister' to the Queen, who he hopes 'may be enabled to triumph over every difficulty'.