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Primrose, Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 8 and 18 May 1899
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Identifier: Coll-1989/55
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Autograph letter signed from Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery to Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, and his wife Mary, from 38 Berkeley Square, [London], 8 & 18 May 1899: “Dear Lyell. I really cannot thank you enough. You could not have pleased me more than by giving me this book (of the very existence of which I was ignorant) about one whose memory I so truly revere [...]” (18 May 1899, to L. Lyell, who had sent him the Memoir of Leonard Horner). – In a secretarial hand: “I am much...
Dates:
8 and 18 May 1899
Roosevelt, Theodore, [1889]-27 November 1902
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Identifier: Coll-1989/60
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1. Autograph letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, [1889]: “I am extremely sorry to have missed you; I leave for Washington at midnight. It is now I fear, too late to ask you for dinner; but will you not come up this evening, at 9.30? Depew and some others whom I would like you to meet will be here; and I can arrange to see you if you go to Washington [...]”. Includes a clipped picture postcard (showing the White House).2. Autograph letter from...
Dates:
[1889]-27 November 1902
Stanley, Edward, 15th Earl of Derby, 29 December 1861
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Identifier: Coll-1989/65
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Autograph letter signed from Edward Stanley to Leonard Horner, Knowsley, 29 December 1861: “I thank you for your note and the extract of a speech delivered in the Parliament of Turin which it contained. In what I said at Lyat [?] on the subject of Italy I spoke according to the best of my judgment, and according to the information which was accessible to me: my sympathies are with the Italian people in their wish for a single government. But it appeared to me that we, in this country, were...
Dates:
29 December 1861