One Autograph Letter Signed ('E. H.' twice) with the first four pages of another (lacking signature), both to 'My dear Gop'.

Both items in good condition, on aged paper. Complete Letter (12 September 1908): 12mo, 3 pp. Bifolium with mourning border. He thanks Gop [Goss?] for the 'letter of great length extended exclamation marks but otherwise agreeable & genial'. Howard 'can understand that vowing to keep silence the next best thing is to write to someone'. Gop's 'instinct is sound': Howard has 'abandoned Presque Isle which is a 12 hrs journey from here'. Gives a date for his return to Manchester. 'This place is really quite charming, though there might be too much society, but the walks & drives are perfect & the colouring like the Bay of Naples'. He quite understands the 'celebrations'. He approves 'the visit of George Junior Rep: & Indian '. 'We can write to Mr. Osborne for you when I return.' Incomplete Letter (4 November 1908): 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. The first part of a longer letter. 'I am anxiously awaiting the result of the Presidential elections & feel so American that I am compelled to write to someone on the other side.' Asks Gop to collect from 'the in the Chancery in a pigeon-hole worded with my name, a lot of private letters to Harding's & Sir E. Grey etc. which I was unable to get at before leaving Washington'. Asks for them to be 'put into an envelope & sent in the bag to the F.O.' Among other papers to be sent he would like in particular 'my report on agricultural education of which I know there are some in my room'. Complains that since he has gone 'Charlie treats me as if I was dead, & I don't know whether he is sending my cases or not as I asked him to do [.] Charlie promised he would send me a list of them all as numbered, & I should realy like to know what is being [.]'. Ends here. Pixton Park was the seat of Howard's brother-in-law, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon.…