(PRIME MINISTERS UK) GLADSTONE WILLIAM EWART Autograph Manu

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(PRIME MINISTERS--UK.) GLADSTONE, WILLIAM EWART. Autograph Manuscript Signed, "W.E. Gladstone," working draft of his article entitled "Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley," a review published in the July 24, 1890 issue of The Youth's Companion, with numerous corrections throughout. 4 pages, 4to, written on rectos of separate sheets; two slips of paper containing holograph insertions pasted to last two pages nearly detached, minor loss from chips at edges or corners, faint scattered foxing, folds. (SFC) Np, April 1889

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"The annals of the world present us with no case, anterior to that of America, in which a young State, already grown great, has been introduced into a family of old States which may be said to have grown grey in greatness. . . .
"Europe will not soon let slip . . . the memory of a man the whole strain of whose life was so lofty, loving, generous, and true and nothing to dim the brilliancy of his distinctions, and who lived to promote the goodness and happiness of mankind."