THE QUEEN IS LOOKING FOR A PUPPY ROSEBERY (4th Earl, Archibald John Primrose, 1783-1868, Politician)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Starkey Saying that he is "very much obliged to you for a letter which you wrote to Mrs Franks respecting a Colly puppy, & which she forwarded to us. The puppy of this sort, which I have been in search of is for the Queen; & I have therefore sent your letter to Lord Waterpark, who is now in waiting at Windsor, with a request that he will take the proper means for ascertaining whether it is H.M.'s pleasure to accept the one named in it. In order to save time, I have told Lord Waterpark to correspond directly with yourself ...", 2 sides 8vo., Dalmeny Park, 24th October

He succeeded to the earldom in 1814, and was created Baron Rosebery, of Rosebery in the County of Edinburgh, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1828. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1831 and a Knight of the Thistle in 1840. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Henry Manners Cavendish, 3rd Baron WATERPARK(1793-1863) was a nobleman and Whig Politician. He served as a Lord-in-waiting between 1846 and 1852, and again from 1853 to 1858. He married Elizabeth Jane Anson (d. 1894), extra Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria. She was the younger sister of Anna Margaret, who married Rosebery in 1819 so he was referring to his brother-in-law.

Item Date:  1849

Stock No:  41674      £150

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