GRENVILLE (1st Baron, William Wyndham, 1759-1834, Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1806-1807, from 1790 1st Baron)

Fine Letter signed to an unnamed correspondent saying that "much illness, joined, unfortunately for me, with much business, has prevented me from taking, as I had wished, an earlier opportunity of expressing my thanks to you for the two volumes which you have had the goodness to send to me & also of the lines on Mr Canning. I sincerely condole with you on the severe domestic loss which you mention. I have taken the liberty to direct an L.P. copy (of which a limited number only were printed privately) of a small tract which I have lately published, to be forwarded to you from London ....", 2 sides 8vo., ?, 22nd April

Lord Grenville's Ministry 'of all the Talents' is chiefly remembered for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1807, though their emancipation had to wait until 1833.

Item Date:  1825

Stock No:  36310      £375

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