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Auction: 407 - The Numismatic Collector's Series: Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Jewelry and Autographs - e-Auction
Lot: 894

Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (British Conservative Statesman) (1830-1903) autograph letter signed, (approx 15"x9.5") bifolium, 8pp, embossed Foreign Office stationery, dated May 9 78, to W. Wyndham (likely Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, at the time in the House of Lords, later serving as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Salisbury), with contents pertaining to the Russo-Turkish War, the Russians having accepted a truce offered by the Ottoman Empire only a few months earlier, and the negotiations of the Congress of Berlin soon to begin. A fascinating letter and insight into the political climate of the period.

Estimate
$280 to $350

Starting price
$170