PRIME MINISTER HENRY JOHN TEMPLE (GREAT BRITAIN) - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/15/1847 - HFSID 23880
Price: $460.00
PRIME MINISTER HENRY JOHN TEMPLE (GREAT BRITAIN)
The Foreign Secretary of Great Britain penned his signature and a letter regarding the
Falkland Islands
Autograph Letter Signed: "Palmerston", as Foreign Secretary, 2½p, 4½x7¼. Marvins Hotel,
Regent St, 1847 October 18. To D. Lindley. In part: "The inclosed (sic) Paper [not present]
contains a Portion of a much larger Quantity of what was sent to me last year from the Falkland
Islands…It came in Bags which I sent over to my agriculturist in Ireland…He has lately informed
me that none of it has come up, and he has sent me this sample expressing a Doubt whether it is
seed, but only fragments of some other Part of the Plants & I should be glad to have your opinion
on that Point." Prime Minister Henry John Temple of Great Britain
(1784-1865), popularly known as Lord Palmerston due to his Irish Peerage title
as the 3rd Viscount Palmerston, was Britain's Secretary of State for War
(1809-1828), Foreign Secretary (1830-1834, 1835-1841, 1846-1851) and
Prime Minister (1855-1858, 1859-1865). He held office almost continuously
for nearly half a century from 1807 until his death. Because he held an Irish
peerage rather than an English one, he was able to sit in the House of
Commons. Disliked by Queen Victoria and often abrasive in dealing with
foreign governments - he held a lifelong antipathy to the United States -
Palmerston was nevertheless effective in promoting British interests. Although he
opposed slavery, Palmerston sympathized with the Confederacy on the grounds
that a breakup of the United States would benefit Britain. Ink transfer, light show
through. Lightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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