Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881) who is the British politician of the Conservative party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative party, defining its policies and it's broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles with the Liberal Party leader William Gladstone and his one nation conservatism. He made the conservative party most identified with the glory and power of the British Empire. He is the only Prime Minister to have been of Jewish birth. He was also a novelist, publishing works of fiction even whilst as Prime Minister. He maintained a close friendship with Queen Victoria who in 1876 appointed him Earl of Beaconsfield. Disraeli became known as one of Europe’s leading statesman .
 
This amazing 8 page autograph letter dated 1877, written by Disraeli in his own hand and free franked as “Beaconsfield “ on the accompanying original transmittal envelope  Signed as “B”..On 2 Whitehall Gardens SW letterhead. Records show Disraeli resided at #2 Whitehall gardens from 1875 to 1878 .He subsequently moved into Downing St because of “the terrible steep stairs at no 2 Whitehall Gardens” .This very letter is published in volume V1 of George Earle Buckles The Life of Benjamin Disraeli (New York, the Macmillan company 1920 ) 
 
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote this lengthy letter to his friend Mrs de Burgh (1809-1880), the wife of Hubert de Burgh a landowner in West Drayton.
 
In Part with original usage and punctuation
"I am grieved I did not see you before you left town -- but I have been very ill + continue very ill + am really quite incapable of walking up stairs - Gout + Bronchitis have ended in Asthma, the horror of wh: I have never contemplated or conceived. I have seen more than one person die, but I don't think th suffered the oppression + despair wh: I have sometimes to encounter - +, sometimes I am obliged to sit up all night, + want of sleep at last breaks one down.
Nothing but the critical state of affairs has kept me at my post, but if I die of it, I cannot desert it now - I have managed to attend every Cabinet, but I can't walk at present from Whitehall to Downing St, but am obliged to brougham even that step, wh: I once could have repeated fifty times a day…
"Disraeli had suffered acutely from the complaints he mentions in his letter for many years. After Disraeli's second term as British Prime Minister ended in April 1880, his health further deteriorated. He developed a case of bronchitis in March 1881, and his condition worsened over the following month. Disraeli died at his Mayfair, London home of 19, Curzon Street on the morning of April 19, 1881 at the age of 76. Public grief was universal, from Queen Victoria, distraught from losing one of her favorite advisers, to even William Gladstone, Disraeli's greatest political rival.