Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxcvii, cccxcviii.. Letters to Lady Spencer from Elizabeth, daughter of George Sayer, Archdeacon of Durham, and widow of the Hon. Raby Vane, M.P., with a few draft replies; 1775-1788. Two volumes. Unbound. 228 x 187 mm. average size.
Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxcix-cd. Miscellaneous correspondence of Lord and Lady Spencer, chronologically arranged; 1753-1814, n.d. Two volumes. Unbound. 334 x 208 mm.
Althorp Papers. Vols. cdi-cdxxxiv. Letters to Lord and Lady Spencer concerning requests for charity and patronage, with related papers; 1750s-1814. Partly French and Italian. Including a few printed items. Arranged by Lady Spencer in alphabetical order of petitioner's name, with a preliminary note by her: `all these letters concern Charities of different kinds which I keep as a Cordial to remind me of my Lord's never failing Generosity & Humanity & of the earnestness with which I exe...
Althorp Papers. Vols. cdxlix, cdl. Estate correspondence and papers, chiefly of the Spencers'stewards, John Shipton and Thomas Parker; 1747-1781. Two volumes.
Althorp Papers. Vols. cdliii-cdlxxi. Personal and household accounts of the Spencer family; 1769-1775. Consisting of tradesmen's and servants' bills and receipts, which appear to have been preserved as vouchers to the accounts of the Spencers' household stewards between 1772 and 1775. Only fragments of the accounts themselves survive, and the whole collection represents the only surviving portion of what must originally have been a long sequence of such material. Eighteen volumes.
Althorp Papers. Vols. dliii-dlxviii. Despatches to Spencer on Admiralty matters;1794-1801. Copies of letters from the preceding sequence; Sixteen bound volumes, blue cloth binding, lettered in gold. Fifteen volumes measure 339mm x 208mm and one 272mm x 220mm.
Althorp Papers. Vols. dlxxi-dlxxxiii. Correspondence and papers arising from the Commission of Enquiry established to investigate the sexual conduct of Caroline, Princess of Wales, known as the 'Delicate Investigation'; 1806-1807. The Commission comprised the Prime Minister Lord Grenville, Spencer as Home Secretary, the Lord Chancellor Erskine and the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Ellenborough. It concluded with the recommendation to the King to give her `a serious admonition' to be more circumsp...