Author:
Sir Henry Lucy (1842-1924), Victorian political journalist [A. M. Broadley (?Broadley Pasha?), journalist and autograph collector; Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, leading promoter of the Suez Canal]
Publication details:
16 July 1883; 158 Brixton Road, on cancelled House of Commons letterhead.
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient A. M. Broadley was widely-regarded as an expert on the middle east. The year before the present letter, he had represented Ahmed Urabi after an uprising in Egypt, earning himself 10,000 guineas and the nickname ?Broadley Pasha?. At the time of writing he was acting as English agent and legal adviser of the ex-Khedive Ismail, who had been deposed in 1879 and was living near Naples (although at the time of writing he was clearly in London). 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with strip of tape from mount adhering to second leaf.