Autograph letter signed by George Anson, Private Secretary to Prince Albert 1848

ANSON, George Edward (1812–1849). Autograph note signed in his capacity as private secretary to Prince Albert. Buckingham Palace, 3 November 1848.
 
Single sheet, approx. 225 × 180 mm, written in ink on pale cream paper. Horizontal folds, otherwise clean. Very good. 
 
Official acknowledgement written by George Anson, private secretary to Prince Albert, thanking Mr Gamble for his communication of 31 October, accompanied with a Prospectus of the Electric Telegraph Company.
 
The Electric Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, was the world’s first public telegraph company and in 1848 remained in its early years of operation. Telegraphy was already of direct royal interest, and in time Queen Victoria would use the company to get a private line installed to the Isle of Wight.
 
The sender is plausibly identified as either John Gamble or Douglas Pitt Gamble, both associated with litigation against the Electric Telegraph Company shortly after its formation. It is feasible that one of the two Gambles were lobbying Prince Albert, to state their case, using the prospectus to point out their grievances.