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- 27 October 1841 (Creation)
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1 leaf of paper, folded, 1 p.
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Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.
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Autograph letter addressed from "Cambridge", signed, to Elizabeth Van de Weyer.
Having promised to send prints of [George] Washington and his wife, Sparks encloses some impressions that are not as good as he would have wished, but which he hopes will nevertheless prove worthy additions to Elizabeth's collection.
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20.1 cm x 11.9 cm
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The document is inserted loose into the album.
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Enclosed in the letter is a print of George Washington.
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- Van de Weyer [née Bates], Elizabeth Anne Sturgis (1817-1878), wife of Jean Sylvain Van de Weyer, friend of Queen Victoria (Subject)
- Sparks, Jared (1789-1866), historian and clergyman (Subject)
- Washington, George (1732–1799), revolutionary army officer and president of the United States of America (Subject)
- Washington, Martha (1731-1802), First Lady of the United States (Subject)