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Letter from Lord Herschell, London, to T. J. Cobden Sanderson, 1886 February 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
103398
Accession number
MA 23325
Creator
Herschell, Farrer Herschell, Baron, 1837-1899.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 February 8.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Previously accessioned MA 1754 and acquired with a collection of letters to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, Anne Cobden-Sanderson and other family members.
Written from "46, Grosvenor Gardens, S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Lord Herschell served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 6 February 1886 to 20 July 1886 and again from 1892-1895.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby sale, lot 708, 27 June 1956.
Summary
Thanking him for his "kind letter - I hope I may not altogether disappoint the expectations of my friends, to some extent I fear I must do so."