STUART, Lord Dudley. 16386

£30

Description

Autograph Letter in the third person, regretting that ill health prevents him from attending the Anniversary Dinner of the City of London Truss Society. 1½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition. 34 St. James’s Place, 4 February 1850. Lord Dudley Stuart (1803-1854), politician. A Whig and subsequently Liberal, he was a passionate advocate of Polish independence, and sympathetic in general to the cause of the Eastern European peoples against Russia. He received Lajos Kossuth in England after his exile from Hungary.