Beschreibung:

A series of 41 original letters between the 3rd Lord Londonderry and Lord Burghersh, written 1814-1846, comprising 41 neatly written letters (over 165 pages, plus 2 defective letters), 28 of which concern the period 1814-24 when Vane was ambassador in Vienna, with two autograph draft replies by Burghersh, mid 19th century manuscript leaf numbering to upper outer corners, letters stitched together as volume (disbound from larger album) with manuscript title at front 'Letters Lord Stewart now Lord Londonderry to and from Lord Burghersh now Earl of Westmorland, 1814-1846. Arranged and bound in 1858', and three leaves of manuscript contents, mid 19th century half morocco over marbled boards, spine deficient, worn, 4to Charles William Stewart, later Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, (1778-1854) was a British soldier, politician and nobleman, the son (by his second wife) of the 1st Marquess of Londonderry, and half-brother to Lord Castlereagh. He had a highly distinguished career. Initially commissioned into the British Army as a Lieutenant at the age of 16, he saw service in Flanders in 1794, and was Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Tory representative for Thomastown, County Kilkenny two years later, and exchanged this seat for that of County Derry, representing the same constituency at Westminster after 1801. In 1803 Stewart was appointed aide-de-camp to King George III, and four years later became Under Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. In 1809 he was made Adjutant General to Sir John Moore with the British forces fighting in the Peninsular War. In 1813 he was made Colonel of the 25th Light Dragoons and until the end of the war was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, and also Military Commissioner with the allied armies. In 1814 he was made Ambassador to Vienna, a post he held for nine years, and was present at the Congress of Vienna with his half-brother Lord Castlereagh. In 1820 he was made colonel of the 10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars). Lord Stewart succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry in 1822. The following year being created Earl Vane and Viscount Seaham, of Seaham in the County of Durham. He became Governor of County Londonderry from 1823 and Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1843. (1)