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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 55

Documents
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
1856 (3 February) folio A.L.S. to Col. Phipps sent from St. James's Square, he writes, "I received yesterday from the Publishers a copy of a work on the Natural History of the Dee side, purporting to be published by command of the Queen, and to be presented by Prince Albert. May I beg of you to express to His Royal Highness my very grateful sense of the Honour which he has conferred on me by directing a copy of this interesting publication to be forwarded to me in his name ...", and signed "Derby". With a contemporary translation into German written on the same bifolium and showing a royal household receipt circular datestamp stuck in blue

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby KG GCMG PC (1799 – 1869) was a British statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.



Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps (1801 – 1866), was a British soldier and courtier. Phipps was much in the confidence of Victoria and Albert, and aided Charles Grey in his duties as Private Secretary to the Sovereign after the death of Albert in 1861.

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