An Original 10 Downing Street Handwritten Signed Letter by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Letter dated 1928. The letter reads - 'My dear Maynard Smith, nothing would give me more pleasure than to see you again but speak in Glo'ster I cannot. To accept one engagement in the week or two at Christmas opens up the sluice gates: one engagement I mean beyond my annual meeting which takes up an afternoon and involves a speech. I hate refusing to lend a hand, but if I did all I was asked to I should soon crack. Yours ever, Stanley Baldwin' Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, 1867-1947 was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, from May 1923 to January 1924, from November 1924 to June 1929, and from June 1935 to May 1937. Size is 188m x 120mm. Condition is good. Folding crease.