2-page handwritten letter (on card), sent from Speech House, Coleford.
Dated 1898.
Written to "Dear Colonel Turner" (General Sir Alfred Edward Turner).
"I should have been glad to dine, and to hear Arnold-Forster by accepting your invitation, had it not been that I shall be in the country at the time. I may pass through London on Friday night, and shall be at Pyrford, Maybury, Woking, from Saturday till the day before parliament meets the 7th. I am contributing a few letters on the subject to the 'Daily Mail' on account of the great circulation of that paper & they will I believe appear in the week of your dinner..... your very truly Charles W Dilke"
Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet (1843 – 1911) English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early 1870s, he later became a leader in the radical challenge to Whig control of the Liberal Party. Touted as a future prime minister, his aspirations to higher political office were effectively terminated in 1885 after a notorious and well-publicised divorce case. Became Liberal Member of Parliament for Chelsea in 1868, a seat he held until 1886. Served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and later as President of the Local Government Board. At the 1892 general election, Dilke was elected as the MP for the Forest of Dean, which he held for the remainder of his life.
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