[Sir Stafford Northcote, Conservative politician.] Two Autograph Letters Signed, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, giving instructions while away at Balmoral to his private secretary Sir John Arrow Kempe.]

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The two items are in good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. Both addressed to ‘Dear Kempe’. ONE (7 September 1876): 1p, 12mo. Signed ‘St N’. He asks Kempe to get him ‘Mr Gladstone’s pamphlet’, and would also ‘like to have Mr. Evans’ recent work about Bosnia and Herzegovina, published I think by Longman.’ He ends with news of his plans, and asks in a postscript: ‘What do you say to the Revenue returns?’ TWO (8 September 1876): 3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. Signed ‘Stafford H. Northcote’. He will be travelling from Balmoral ‘to Sir J. Clark’s’ on the Monday, but ‘it will hardly be worth while sending letters to me there, as I fancy the post arrives very late; so please address on Monday to Sir John Ogilvy’s, Baldovan, Dundee, where I shall be till Friday, and then go on to Sir G. Montgomery’s (Stobo, Peebles).’ He continues: ‘Mr Gladstone has sent me his pamphlet: but there will be no harm in having a second copy if you have ordered one. If not, you need not get one.’ He instructs him to ‘have notes kept of speeches, letters &c made or written during the vacation on the Eastern question or on other matters likely to require notice next session. Of course I don’t mean every speech, but only of important ones; and only notes to show when they were made so that we can look them up in the Times if necessary.’ In a postscript he gives instructions regarding a letter he has signed to ‘Mr. Armstrong’.