one autograph letter signed to the civil engineer and politician Sir Charles Lanyon (1813-89),

Author: 
Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns
Publication details: 
21 October 1876, with letterhead 5 Cromwell Houses.
£45.00
SKU: 1133

Lord Chancellor of England (1819-85). 2 pp, 12mo. "I am much obliged to you for sending me the resolutions adopted at the large & influential meeting which assembled under your presidency at Belfast to express the opinions entertained in that part of the Kingdom on the Questions of Foreign Policy which now occupy so deeply the public mind. It is a matter of much satisfaction to me to <?> that the Conduct of Her Majesty's Government with regard to these Questions received on that occasion so warm an approval." Docketted on the recto of the second leaf, and with four pieces of gummed paper from mounting adhering to the verso of the second leaf.