Author: HOWARD, James (Earl of Malmesbury) (1807-89)
Title: Document Signed
Description: English diplomat and statesman; Queen Victoria's foreign affairs secretary. Partly-printed DS, 1p, 10" X 14½", London, England, 1852 August 27. Very good. Passport, beautifully engraved on the usual thin onion skin paper with ornate crest at top and bottom, for a Charles Calvert Corner, "(British Subject) travelling on the Continent." (Corner, 1812-61, was a noted solicitor from a well-known family of English jurists.) Boldly signed with his usual "Malmesbury" at lower right. .

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