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Letter from George Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, London, to John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, 1858 May 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
126731
Accession number
MA 22849
Creator
Ellesmere, George Granville Francis Egerton, Earl of, 1823-1862.
Display Date
London, England, 1858 May 22.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Marked "Private."
On stationery with red letterhead: "Bridgewater / House." Bridgewater House is located in London.
Signed "Egerton Ellesmere."
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume VIII, page 396.
Summary
Writing that, as the "melancholy death" of Lady Maynard Leveson-Gower has made it impossible for Lord Granville to attend to business at present, he will communicate with Lyndhurst in the interim; giving his address in the country; saying that he will take no steps without hearing from Lyndhurst, "and I can only repeat that tho' I should be sorry that all these endeavours to make a 'rapprochement' should fail; I individually should only be too happy to be released from taking a prominent part to which both my strength & my abilities are I fear [no?] equal."