CASSILHAS

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[Sir Edward Thornton, diplomat.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Edwd Thornton') to Viscount Castlereagh, writing from Sweden, to which he has travelled in HMS Victory, asking for a knighthood for negotiating the first treaty between Britain and Russia.

Author: 
Sir Edward Thornton, Count of Cassilhas in the Portuguese nobility (1766-1852), diplomat [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (1769-1822), Tory foreign secretary]
Publication details: 
Stockholm. 7 December 1812.
£280.00

5pp., 4to. On two bifoliums. In fair condition, on lightly aged paper, with slight wear and creasing at the foot of both bifoliums, and labels from previous mounting still adhering. Headed 'Private'.

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