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MALMESBURY (JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, third Earl)

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MALMESBURY (JAMES HOWARD HARRIS, third Earl)

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0 £
Zuschlagspreis:
5.400 £
ca. 7.965 $
Beschreibung:

Papers of James Howard Harris, third Earl of Malmesbury, relating, inter alia, to his service as Foreign Secretary (1852 and 1859-59), to Conservative party politics (as a protégée of the 14th Earl of Derby and early ally of Benjamin Disraeli) and to his memoirs published in 1884, including autograph letters etc (many in groups or series) by Benjamin Disraeli (four fine letters, 21 November and 4 December 1849, 1 January 1850, 30 November 1855, discussing their attempts at party reform: "The state of the press is deplorable... The scandal of our provincial movement is great & flagrant, but I hope the evil is more superficial than it seems, & that, with tact & temper, the ship may be righted... but we have had to deal with a wrongheaded man"; with a long exposition of why they should have accepted the Queen's invitation to govern during the last months of the Crimean War: "a party, that has shrunk from the responsibility of conducting a war, would never be able to carry on an opposition against a Minister for having concluded an unsatisfactory peace, however bad the terms. We are off the rails of politics, & must continue so, as long as the war lasts, & the only thing that can ever give us a chance, is that the war should finish, & on terms wh may be now practicable..."), the 14th Earl of Derby (fine series of nearly fifty letters: "I have just been reading your correspondence with Gladstone, who has displayed more than his usual insolence and want of temper... for the whole of the expenditure on the Chinese War our Predecessors, and not we, are responsible; and that on our accession to office, we only abstained from endeavouring to put an end to the expedition for the fear that at such a distance we might embarrass, as we should have done, operations already in progress..."), his son the 15th Earl (who served under Malmesbury, his "dear old chief", and eventually succeeded him as Foreign Secretary: "Bad news from Abyssinia. I almost despair of getting out the prisoners by peaceable means, and it is not easy, in that country, to use any others. Why we ever sent a consul there I can't understand. Cretan accounts confused and contradictory, but I think the Turks are winning. Both side lie as man never lied before..."), the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, most as Secretary for the Colonies (including a long letter assessing the position after Palmerston's death: "I foresee plainly enough trouble in our camp and very great political risk in Parl.t generally if the present policy is continued. I write to you – as I always speak to you – with complete frankness..." ; and one written two days before his resignation in protest at Disraeli's Reform Act of 1867: "The fault is with Disraeli who hurried his measures without proper figures or calculations upon us in order to overcome a supposed resistance & to stifle all discussion... The Press [Disraeli's paper] is very violent in denouncing those agst Mr Disraeli's 'Colleagues' who are thwarting him & in urging him to throw himself on the H. of C. without troubling himself about them..."), Lord John Manners ("...yesterday we were [contd.] suddenly brought together to hear that Cranborne & Carnarvon withdrew unless we gave up Household Suffrage & Duality... Derby & Disraeli behaved wonderfully well; but we are in a very broken and disorganized condition..."), Lord George Bentinck ("...Disraeli made a wonderful speech last night [15 May 1846], even OConnell says it was the greatest speech he ever heard within the walls of Parliament..."), the Duke of Wellington (3), Henry Brougham, Lord Ellenborough, George Duke of Cambridge, the diplomat Lord Westmorland, Stratford Canning, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Granville (defending his conduct in early 1852 as Palmerston's Foreign Secretary), J.P. Beavan (long letter describing the seizure of power by Malmesbury's friend the future Napoleon III, beginning: "Here we are again at the end of another and more complete revolution: one more, far more important in its

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 159
Auktion:
Datum:
08.06.2010
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Papers of James Howard Harris, third Earl of Malmesbury, relating, inter alia, to his service as Foreign Secretary (1852 and 1859-59), to Conservative party politics (as a protégée of the 14th Earl of Derby and early ally of Benjamin Disraeli) and to his memoirs published in 1884, including autograph letters etc (many in groups or series) by Benjamin Disraeli (four fine letters, 21 November and 4 December 1849, 1 January 1850, 30 November 1855, discussing their attempts at party reform: "The state of the press is deplorable... The scandal of our provincial movement is great & flagrant, but I hope the evil is more superficial than it seems, & that, with tact & temper, the ship may be righted... but we have had to deal with a wrongheaded man"; with a long exposition of why they should have accepted the Queen's invitation to govern during the last months of the Crimean War: "a party, that has shrunk from the responsibility of conducting a war, would never be able to carry on an opposition against a Minister for having concluded an unsatisfactory peace, however bad the terms. We are off the rails of politics, & must continue so, as long as the war lasts, & the only thing that can ever give us a chance, is that the war should finish, & on terms wh may be now practicable..."), the 14th Earl of Derby (fine series of nearly fifty letters: "I have just been reading your correspondence with Gladstone, who has displayed more than his usual insolence and want of temper... for the whole of the expenditure on the Chinese War our Predecessors, and not we, are responsible; and that on our accession to office, we only abstained from endeavouring to put an end to the expedition for the fear that at such a distance we might embarrass, as we should have done, operations already in progress..."), his son the 15th Earl (who served under Malmesbury, his "dear old chief", and eventually succeeded him as Foreign Secretary: "Bad news from Abyssinia. I almost despair of getting out the prisoners by peaceable means, and it is not easy, in that country, to use any others. Why we ever sent a consul there I can't understand. Cretan accounts confused and contradictory, but I think the Turks are winning. Both side lie as man never lied before..."), the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, most as Secretary for the Colonies (including a long letter assessing the position after Palmerston's death: "I foresee plainly enough trouble in our camp and very great political risk in Parl.t generally if the present policy is continued. I write to you – as I always speak to you – with complete frankness..." ; and one written two days before his resignation in protest at Disraeli's Reform Act of 1867: "The fault is with Disraeli who hurried his measures without proper figures or calculations upon us in order to overcome a supposed resistance & to stifle all discussion... The Press [Disraeli's paper] is very violent in denouncing those agst Mr Disraeli's 'Colleagues' who are thwarting him & in urging him to throw himself on the H. of C. without troubling himself about them..."), Lord John Manners ("...yesterday we were [contd.] suddenly brought together to hear that Cranborne & Carnarvon withdrew unless we gave up Household Suffrage & Duality... Derby & Disraeli behaved wonderfully well; but we are in a very broken and disorganized condition..."), Lord George Bentinck ("...Disraeli made a wonderful speech last night [15 May 1846], even OConnell says it was the greatest speech he ever heard within the walls of Parliament..."), the Duke of Wellington (3), Henry Brougham, Lord Ellenborough, George Duke of Cambridge, the diplomat Lord Westmorland, Stratford Canning, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Granville (defending his conduct in early 1852 as Palmerston's Foreign Secretary), J.P. Beavan (long letter describing the seizure of power by Malmesbury's friend the future Napoleon III, beginning: "Here we are again at the end of another and more complete revolution: one more, far more important in its

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 159
Auktion:
Datum:
08.06.2010
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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