Letter from Lord Munster, Munich, to George Dawson-Damer, 1841 August 13 : autograph manuscript signed with initial.

Thanking him for his letter, all the political news and commenting on the situation in which Peel finds himself; saying "I fear for some trick and think, unless, the amendment to the address be strong, amounting to a notice of the country having confirmed the vote for removal from office of the present Ministers - that, Minsters may yet hang on for some while - I fear, that this conciliatory speech, will cause Peel, to bid too high for office and commit himself & his Party, to measures not unlike those of the last Ten years - I agree with you that the respectable (?) part of the Whig Cabinet will never return and that the violent set will be over bidding for power at any cost - Melbourne will look back in his cooler moments, with great regret to all that has passed - that You, will have another Election, within six months I am quite satisfied - but I think it will do harm to the Whigs, as the Country is evidently taking a favorable turn - and thinking seriously of its position... I hope you have better weather than we have here or the Conservatives will be thrown into great difficulty - by a bad Harvest;" saying he has been buying books from secularised monasteries from the "...first century & a half after printing - I have also found the first Terrestrial Globe, made in the world 1492 and had drawings made & shall send them, with a Memoir to the Geographical Society. My Travels have been quite Literary & as I have been elected President of the Aseatic Society am preparing an address for them at their next anniversary;" relating social news of mutual friends.