ALBEMARLE (William Coutts Keppel, 1832-1894, known, 1851-1891, as Viscount Bury, M.P., Lt. Col. of the Civil Service Rifle Volunteers, 1860, from 1891 7th Earl)

Autograph letter signed 'Bury' to Sir C. Lindsay Lewis, saying his cousin "Sir Coutts Lindsay," (1824-1913, watercolourist, founder of the Grosvenor Gallery), "a confrere in art whose picture of his mother was so much praised two years ago ... is very anxious to hear the Moray Minstrels", and asking for "an invitation ... I suppose I shall have a brigade on Easter Monday - will you take your horse down as usual?", with a contemporary unsigned photograph showing him in uniform, full length, nearly full face, leaning against a pillar, 3½" x 2¼", the letter 3 sides 8vo, 48 Rutland Gate, S.W., 19th February no year, circa



Item Date:  1865

Stock No:  53821