[Nassau William Senior, English political economist notorious for his supposed callousness during the Irish Potato Famine.] Autograph Signature ( N W Senior ) to envelope addressed by him to The / Lady Theresa Lewis / Kent House .

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The claim that Benjamin Jowett reported Senior as saying that the famine of 1848 in Ireland would not kill more than a million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do much good appears to have been made up by Cecil Woodham-Smith. It is certainly not mentioned in Senior s entry in the Oxford DNB, along with the entry for the recipient Lady (Maria) Theresa Lewis (1803-1865), who lived in Kent House in Knightsbridge with her second husband Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart, her first husband having been the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842). The present item is a 12.5 x 8 cm envelope. In good condition, lightly aged. The front panel has the signature N W Senior at bottom left, with the address centred as usual: The / Lady Theresa Lewis / Kent House . On the reverse the back flap has been carefully torn open, leaving a the red-wax seal intact, but sadly without any impression. See Image. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 25614

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