PRIME MINISTER HENRY JOHN TEMPLE (GREAT BRITAIN) - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 12/17/1846 - HFSID 26787
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PRIME MINISTER HENRY JOHN TEMPLE (GREAT BRITAIN)
As Foreign Minister, he signed this 1846 manuscript letter promising to consider a
consular post for a man recommended by a Prussian diplomat
Manuscript letter signed: "Palmerston" as Foreign Secretary, 3 pages, 8x12¾. Foreign
Office, 1846 December 17. To Baron Alexander d'Humboldt. In part: "I have had the
honour to receive your letter of the 29th of November in which you recall to my
recollection the Talents and Services of Sir Robert Schombergh and request for him
Consular Employment in Europe…Sir Robert Schombergh has mentioned to me his wish
to be appointed to a Consulship in South America, and I have put his name down on my
list of Candidates for such an appointment…." 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.
SCHOMBERGH was later appointed British Consul in Santo Domingo. HUMBOLDT was
a scientist, Prussian diplomat, world traveler and writer. The Humboldt Current is named for
him. Lightly creased. Folds, pin hole at cross-folds. Lightly stained, touching the "t" of signature.
Nicked at upper and lower blank edges at mid-vertical fold. Encapsulated. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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