PEEL ROBERT: (1788-1850)

PEEL ROBERT: (1788-1850) British Prime Minister 1834-35 & 1841-46. A.L.S., with his initials RP, four pages, 8vo, Drayton Manor (Lichfield, Staffordshire), 5th February (1849), to a gentleman, possibly John Scott. Peel states that he did not write to Mr. Colnaghi regarding the sale of some engravings ´for from the specimens you were good enough to get for me.....I thought there was a great deal of trash´, further adding ´There are certain portraits mentioned in the catalogue which I should be glad to have, but I do not require more than one good copy of each engraving. I do not require proofs if the proofs are expensive as curiousities in cost´ and continuing to list the portraits of interest, including Robert Devereux and other Earls of Essex, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, Thomas Thynne of Longleat, Sir Francis Walsingham etc. In a postscript Peel advises his correspondent that a proof of Lord Hardinge can be retained in London for the moment. Some light age wear and with a lengthy, neat split to the vertical central fold of the bifolium. G Peel´s correspondent may have been John Scott (d.1864) who, from 1839, worked alongside his cousin Dominic Colnaghi in the firm of art dealers P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. of London, established in 1760.