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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75683-75684
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. ccclxxxiii, ccclxxxiv. Letters to Lady Spencer from George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham, 2nd Earl Harcourt; 1756-1814. Including a few letters to Lady Spencer from his wife, Elizabeth, and two letters at the beginning to Lord Spencer. Some letters from the Spencers to Harcourt are printed in The Harcourt Papers, ed. Edward William Harcourt (Oxford, [1880-1905]), VIII, pp. 71-90. Two volumes. Unbound. 235 x 186 mm.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1756-1814
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75692-75693
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxcii, cccxciii. Letters to Lady Spencer from Frances, wife of William Henry Fortescue, Earl of Clermont, 1770-1801. Including a few letters from Lord Clermont. Two volumes. Unbound. 235 x 190 mm. average size.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1770-1801
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75694-75695
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cccxciv, cccxcv. Letters to Lady Spencer from Rachel Lloyd, housekeeper of Kensington Palace; 1773-1800. Followed by an extract from her will, concerning the bequest of her collection of historical papers to Georgiana, Countess Spencer and afterwards to her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, Countess Spencer; 1803. For these papers, see sections B and C above. Two volumes. Unbound. 239 x 186 mm. average size.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1773-1803
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75697-75698
Title:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1775-1788
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75699-75700
Title:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1753-1814
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75701-75733
Title:: 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...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1750s-1814
Extent:: 33 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75734 A-D
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cdxxxiv A-D. Notebooks of Lady Spencer concerning expenditure for charitable purposes; 1793-1807. Four volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1793-1807
Extent:: 4 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75739-75741
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cdxxxix-cdxli. 'Poetry': verses and prose inscriptions by Lady Spencer and others; 1720-early 19th cent. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1720-Early 19th century
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75749-75750
Title:: Althorp Papers. Vols. cdxlix, cdl. Estate correspondence and papers, chiefly of the Spencers'stewards, John Shipton and Thomas Parker; 1747-1781. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1747-1781
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 75753-75771
Title:: 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.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 1769-1775
Extent:: 19 items

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