Fragment of Autograph Letter to Palmer, with signature ('W E Gladstone') on frank.

Part of a letter, cut away for an autograph collector, roughly 5.5 x 10.5 cm. The recto carries the franked address, trimmed close, reading 'London July twenty 1835. | Roundell Palmer Esq | Mixbury | Birmingham [corrected in another hand to 'Magdalen Colle | Oxford'], signed in bottom left-hand corner 'W E Gladstone'. Fragment of letter, on reverse, reads '<...> himself professes <...> | <...>ardly to the fall <...> | <...> & what I fear <...> | <...> an involuntary <...> | <...> Wickamites will <...> | <...> to the infinite <...> | <...> own. However <...> | <...> ? - Everything <...> | <...>ably. I heartily <...> | <...> you would, I <...>'.