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Autograph Letter signed "Salisbury" [4th Marquess) to Lord Mangham, inviting the latter to join the Watching Committee.

Author: 
James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, statesman
ALS "Salisbury" [4th Marquess], invitation to join Watching Committee.
Publication details: 
[Printed heading] Manor House, Cranborne, Dorset, 9 Jan. 1841.
£135.00
ALS "Salisbury" [4th Marquess], invitation to join Watching Committee.

Two pages, 8vo, good condition. He tells him that there is an organisation which has been in existence for some months which calls itself the Watching Committee. It consisits of a few men - some 20 - from both Houses who hope that by their influence and experience they may be useful in watching the conduct of the War and may be able to make suggestions and even exercise a certain amoutn of pressure in respect of War administration. He describes its constituents in more detail and its provision of Ministers. He asks Would you care to join it?

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