Letter - Giving Effect [HM Ambassador Extraordinary] [1906-12-22]

Letter - Giving Effect [HM Ambassador Extraordinary] [1906-12-22]

Foreign Affairs

Letter from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman notifying Edward Grey that King Edward VII had approved the appointment of James Bryce as HM Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington and asking him to give effect to the King's commands.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)

FO 800/100/02

1906-12-22

Jason Loch

10, Downing Street
Whitehall SW

22nd December 1906

Sir,

The King having been graciously pleased to approve of the appointment of the Right Honble James Bryce to be His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington in succession to Sir Mortimer Durand G.C.M.G, K. C. S. I., K. C. I. E., I have to request that the necessary steps may be taken to give effect to His Majesty's commands.

I have the honour to be,
Sir, 
Your obedient servant,
H. Campbell-Bannerman

The Secretary of State
Foreign Office

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury)

Edward Grey (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs)

In the upper left is a device consisting of St. Edward's Crown over the Royal Arms surrounded by the Garter with arched test reading "First Lord of the Treasury". Downing Street's address is in Gothic print in the upper right.

Document is entirely handwritten.

This document is notable in that it's written by the Prime Minister himself. By the later 20th century, these letters came to be written by a secretary on his behalf.