Asquith (H.H.)

Autograph letter signed ('H.H. Asquith') to his elder brother William Willans Asquith ("My dear Dawdles"). Asquith thanks his brother for their two letters and continues "I am glad to say that both Margot & the little girl are going on very well. The latter is very tiny, but is declared by the experts to be exceptionally good looking. Violet, as you may imagine, is in a seventh heaven". Asquith also adds that he thinks the boys will go to the sea side for Easter and hopes that his brother will enjoy his trip; three pages, very light, extremely minor age wear, 8vo, Cavendish Square, London, 5 March 1897.

***William Willans Asquith (1851-1918) Elder brother of H. H. Asquith who was educated at Oxford and became school housemaster at Clifton College, Bristol. H. Asquith had married his second wife, the socialite and author Margot Tennant (1864-1945) in 1894 and together they parented five children. The present letter was written shortly after the birth of Elizabeth Asquith on 26^th February 1897. A sister to Violet (1887-1969, later Violet Bonham Carter), Elizabeth was described as ‘a precocious child of uncertain temper but great intelligence’ and was to become Princess Bibesco following her marriage to the Romanian diplomat Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1951).