Autograph Letter Signed from Helen Gladstone, informing an unnamed male correspondent of the changes her father the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone would like made to a 'Declaration'.

Author: 
Helen Gladstone (1849-1925), Vice-Principal, Newham College, Cambridge, and youngest daughter of the Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
Publication details: 
On letterhead of Hawarden Castle, Chester. 3 October 1874.
£120.00
SKU: 12285

2pp., 12mo. On bifolium. On aged and lightly-creased paper. The letter, written while Gladstone's Liberals were in opposition to Benjamin Disraeli's Conservatives, begins: 'Mr. Gladstone desires me to point out to you a few changes of expression that he would prefer - in paragraphs 3, 10, & 12 & hopes they may be satisfactory, in which case he will sign the Declaration when reingrossed.' She asks him to send the reingrossed declaration with a note that the changes have been made, 'as he will not then have the trouble of looking them out', explaining that she will 'unfortunately be absent after Friday morning next & so could not look them out for my Father'.