Charles Augustus Ellis, 6th Baron Howard de Walden (1799-1868) was minister and envoy at Lisbon. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Letters to Charles Augustus Ellis, consisting of:

• Letters from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, 1834-40, with one from Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, 1867
• Letters from George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, 1842-5

The letters were bought from Bernard Halliday in 1932.

Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures see http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/).

M. Clapinson and T.D. Rogers, Summary Catalogue of Post-Medieval Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Oxford. Acquisitions 1916-1975. (Oxford, 1991), vol. I, nos. 41603-4.

Ellis | Charles Augustus | 1799-1868 | 6th Baron Howard De Walden | diplomat

Stanley | Edward Henry | 1826-1893 | 15th Earl of Derby | statesman

Temple | Henry John | 1784-1865 | 3rd Viscount Palmerston | statesman

Villiers | George William Frederick | 1800-1870 | 4th Earl of Clarendon | statesman