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1-page handwritten letter. sent from 3 Carlton Gardens, London.

Dated 1898.

Written to "Dear Sir"

"I should be extremely obliged if you could furnish me with a ticket for my wife (Countess Tolstoy) for the Abbey on Saturday. Mr Gladstone was my father's oldest friend, and we have both been an intimate in our relations with him during many years, that we are most anxious to pay him this last mark of affection and respect. Yours faithfully, Philip Stanhope"

Philip James Stanhope, 1st Baron Weardale (1847 – 1923) British Liberal Party politician and philanthropist. Member of Parliament (MP), for Wednesbury, Burnley, and Harborough.

With Lord Curzon, he became in 1912 joint president of the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage, an anti-suffrage organisation. In 1914 he was attacked with a dogwhip at Euston Station by a suffragette who mistook him for the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith.

Lord Weardale married Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (1856–1934), granddaughter of the German-born Russian Count Georg von Cancrin and widow of Count Tolstoy, a relative of the writer Leo Tolstoy.

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