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 too much in the habit of undertaking the obstacles which they have, and will have, to encounter and that the result of an over-sanguine expectation on our part might be a proportionate depth of disappointment. I shall be glad to find that I am too despondent [...]”.