Althorp Papers. Vol. mmdv. Pamphlets: 1. Notes of the Military Forces of the Kingdom; pub. by W.O. Mitchell, London, 1867. 2. The Mackay Windage Gun and Projectiles, by the Inventor, James Mackay; 1867. 3. Military Breech-Loading Small Arms, from the Journal of the Royal United Service Instit...
Althorp Papers. Vol. viii. Correspondence and papers of the Spencer family; early 16th cent.-1713. 370 x 220 mm largest size. Unbound. Contents: 1. Correspondence of the Spencer family on private, public and estate matters; early 16th cent.-1657: (a) Sir John Spencer (d.1522), early 16th cent...
Althorp Papers. Vols. dcxxxix-dcxli. Letters to his parents from John Charles, (1782-1845) Viscount Althorp, afterwards 3rd Earl Spencer; 1789-1834. He was M.P. for Northamptonshire from 1806-1834, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons, 1830-1834, and the main government spokesman during the debates on the Reform Bill, 1831-1832. Content includes family news, school and university affairs, travels in Italy, local and national politics, the Northamptonshire yeomanry, ...
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John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp; 3rd Earl Spencer: Letters to his parents: 1789-1834.
Althorp Papers. Vols. dcxlii-dcxliv. Letters to Spencer from his daughter, Sarah, wife of William Henry, 3rd Baron Lyttelton (1787-1870); 1794-1834. Content includes family news and travels in Europe whilst on honeymoon. On the death of her husband in 1837 Sarah became lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria and royal governess from 1842; see The Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton ed. Maud Mary Wyndham (1912) and Betty Askwith, The Lytteltons (1975). Three volumes.
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Lady Sarah Lyttelton, governess to children of Queen Victoria: Letters to her father, Lord Spencer: 1794-1834.
Althorp Papers. Vols. mdxxxvii, mdxxxviii. Correspondence with John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, 1868-1874; 1860-1889, n.d. For the original index see KS504. Two volumes.
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John Robert Townshend, Earl Sydney: Correspondence with 5th Earl Spencer: 1860-1889, n.d.
Althorp Papers. Vol. mdlxv. Correspondence with Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, later 3rd Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary for India (1866-1867, 1874-78), Foreign Secretary (1878-1880, 1885-1886, 1887-1892, 1895-1900), Lord Privy Seal (1900-1902), First Lord of the Treasu...
Althorp Papers. Vol. mdcxx. Correspondence with Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne; Gov. Gen. of Canada (1883-1888), Viceroy of India, (1888-1894), Secretary of War (1895-1900), Foreign Secretary (1900-1905, 1906-1916); 1871-1908. Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaur...