GLADSTONE, William Ewart. 21406

£100

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An early Autograph Letter Signed, to the Rev. R.Greswell [chairman of Gladstone’s Oxford election committee], appreciating “the wisdom of the plan you have adopted in adopting as broad a basis of resistance as possible and pleading my case in company with that of Sir R.Inglis …” 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, in good condition, folds. 6 C.G. [Carlton Gardens], 7 May 1852. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) who became Prime Minister 1868-74, 1880-85, 1886, 1892-94.