Autograph letter signed.
8vo. 3½ pp. on bifolium.
€ 200,00
"Dear Lord Robert. I have been absent both from Knebworth and from town for more than a week. And as my letters were not forwarded, it was only last night, or on my return here, that I r[eceive]d yours of the 16th. I lose no time in thanking you for it, and explaining why have not sooner acknowledged the rcpt. of it. But it is so important that I do not like to answer it off hand. And, if you will kindly allow me to do so, I will communicate with you further on the subject of it, in the course of a few days [...]".
The son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Robert served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880 and as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891. Lytton was a protégé of Benjamin Disraeli in domestic affairs, and of Richard Lyons, his predecessor as Ambassador to France, in foreign affairs.
Traces of a horizontal fold. Tabs from former mounting on lower half of last page.
