Autograph Letter Signed ('Knutsford') from Henry Holland, Viscount Knutsford, to J. W. Lowther, regarding Gatty's 'application for the Attorney Generalship of Hong Kong'.
Author:
Henry Thurstan Holland (1825-1914), 1st Viscount Knutsford [Sir Henry Holland], Secretary of State for the Colonies, 1887-1914 [Sir Stephen Herbert Gatty (1849-1922), Chief Justice of Gibraltar, 1895]
Publication details:
December 1889; on embossed letterhead of the Colonial Office.
£28.00
SKU: 9651
12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium. Sixteen lines. Text clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper, folded twice. He would have consiered 'Mr. Gatty's application [...] together with those of others', but he had 'already made other arrangements for filling up this appointment'. He regrets that he is 'unable to meet his wishes'. Postscript concerning Gatty's divorce.