Beschreibung:

Prime Ministers. A miscellaneous collection of British Prime Ministers’ autograph material, covering the period 1737 to 1898, including Robert Walpole, signature on lower right-hand corner of a treasury document (unusually not torn away), with other signatures including Lords Sundon, Winnington, and Halifax, and George Earle, 1737; Spencer Perceval, Autograph address-wrapper addressed to the Rev. John Owen and franked ('Sp: Perceval'), red wax seal; W.E. Gladstone, autograph postcard signed to J.C. Burnand, complaining that he had not received any paperwork relating to the allotment of shares; 3rd Viscount Palmerston, ALS to 'My dear Grant’, 1828, sending a newspaper extract (not included) relating to free trade; Robert Peel LS as Irish Secretary to the secretary at war, Dublin Castle, 21 August 1816, on financial matters, 2 pages, folio; Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth, ALS ('Sidmouth') agreeing to attend a masonic meeting in connection with a hospital ('I am not a Free Mason; but I cannot object …'), 26 May 1837, 1 page, 8vo; Earl of Aberdeen, ALS to J. Froggatt asking him to visit, 21 July 1846, 1 page, 8vo; Earl of Rosebery, ALS to 'My dear Lord', Berkeley Square, 7 February 1898, declining to undertake an engagement ('highly laudable as it is’), 2 pages, 8vo; Marquess of Salisbury, ALS to the Rev. W. Woodward, Chalet Cecil, Puys, 7 October 1886, sending £150 as a donation, 3 pages, 8vo, with signed envelope