BIB_ID
291979
Accession number
MA 7326.2
Creator
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881.
Display Date
1852 Feb. 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (11 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Includes a typed transcription on the facing page.
Part of a collection of 7 letters from Disraeli to Partridge and one engraving of Disraeli. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 7326.1-8).
Sent from Grosvenor Gate.
Signed "D."
The letter is labeled "Confidential" at the top of p. 1.
With postmark and seal; the postmark, which is from April, suggests that this envelope belongs to a different letter.
Part of a collection of 7 letters from Disraeli to Partridge and one engraving of Disraeli. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 7326.1-8).
Sent from Grosvenor Gate.
Signed "D."
The letter is labeled "Confidential" at the top of p. 1.
With postmark and seal; the postmark, which is from April, suggests that this envelope belongs to a different letter.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Noting that he anticipates no serious opposition in the upcoming election; discussing a "movement among a certain section of the clergy of the county against [him] on the ground of objection to certain passages in [his] late work" [his Lord George Bentinck: a political biography]; maintaining that his work is "eminently religious" and not "infidel"; asking Partridge whether such a movement is "organised"; urging his point that "it is of the utmost importance for the sake of the Church itself, that there sh[ou]ld be no scandalous schism bet[wee]n any considerable body of the clergy & the leader in the H[ouse] of Comm[ons] of a conservative ministry. If this conservative ministry fail, another will not be seen in a hurry"; saying that he will "not remain member for Bucks, unless the clergy heartily support" him.
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