MAHON Charles - AL canvassing support for William Pitt Period_1900 and later

MAHON Charles - AL canvassing support for William Pitt Period_1900 and laterCharles MAHON, 3rd Earl Stanhope (1753 1816) Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir Robert Smith, canvassing support for his brother in law William Pitt. 1 page 4to with integral address leaf, bearing the near intact black wax seal, Harley Street, Monday, n. d. [but most likely 1780 or 1784]. Lord Mahon presents his best Compl[imen]ts to Sir Robert Smith, and should he propose to go towards Cambridge on Saturday next the 9th Instant he should

a Whig politician and Member of Parliament who espoused a number of progressive causes

Wellington nevertheless ends the letter to his niece “most affectionately”

in rather romanticised fashion

Ney’s lawyer

thanking him for a copy of his volume of Indian correspondence

Henry Austin Driver was considered by some to be an excellent poet in his day

the Queen’s Hall

Autograph Postcard Signed (“Gordon Craig”) addressed to John Grant Booksellers in Edinburgh

One ought to keep one’s head

the majority of them having already been put forward after the taking of Badajoz

Autograph Letter Signed ("Walter de la Mare") to "Dear Mr

but I suppose everybody liked him