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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 43

Documents
Robert Peel
1844 (21 September) folio A.L.S. from Whitehall to the Austrian diplomat Philipp Baron Neumann, "We rejoice to hear, confirmed by most unquestionable authority, the reports of your intended marriage. You and Lady Augusta Somerset have the most cordial good wishes of Lady Peel and myself for your happiness. We are very glad that your connection with England will not terminate with the suspension of official relations, but will be renewed by ties much more agreeable and more binding. You have always been a good Englishman – and deserve an English wife and have shewn your good taste by this selection which you have made ...". He concludes with the news that his daughter's health had recovered, signed "Robert Peel". Photo


Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (1788 – 1850) was a British statesman and member of the Conservative Party, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835 and 1841–1846) and twice served as Home Secretary (1822–1827 and 1828–1830). He is regarded as the father of the modern British police and as one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.


Neumann had long served on the staff of the Austrian embassy in London, was on excellent terms with the Duke of Wellington and Castlereagh. In December 1829 he conducted the Treaty of Commerce between Austria and Great Britain; in 1844 he became Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary for Austria to the Court of St. James’s. He married Augusta Somerset (1816-50), Wellington’s grandniece, on 5 December 1844.

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