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.