He tells Twining about his apprehensions for peace in North America. Autograph letter, signed

Book Description

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight: February 14,, 1842. 125 x 205 mm; 4 pages, last page blank except for manuscript docket. Usual folds. Alexander Baring's career as an international financier had included speculating in large tracts of American wilderness, and negotiating the Louisiana Purchase between France and the United States. The bank he helped establish at the end of the 18th century endured until 1995, when it was brought down by a rogue trader. After his distinguished career, Baring came out of retirement in 1842 in order to serve as British Ambassador to negotiate with Daniel Webster, an old friend, for the settlement of the disputed boundary between the United States and Canada. Here en route to America, he writes to Thomas Twining, financier of the East India Company (and still known for his tea), that "the subjects of difference with our transatlantic children are unfortunately numerous and various, and nothing but the very extreme importance I attach to the maintenance of peace would have induced me to make an Experiment somewhat hazardous and presumptuous for my time of life.

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