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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 89036/2

1. Add MS 89036/2/1

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Add MS 89036/2/1
Title:
William Dacres Adams: Letters from Lady Hester Stanhope
Scope & Content:
The file includes two letters (4 and 5) from Charles Stanhope to Adams (items 4 and 5). Very few of the letters from Lady Stanhope to Adams are properly dated, and they are not presented in strict chronology (e.g. letters 4-10 relate to Pitt's final days, January 1806, but in the letters immedia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-1806
Extent:
1 file

2. Add MS 89036/2/2

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Letters from Lady Hester Stanhope
Scope & Content:
Letter numbering continues from Add MS 89036/2/1. 30. No date. [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams]. 'I am very much obliged to you for your account of Mr. Pitt's health.' 31. No date. [Lady Stanhope] to [Adams]. An excited letter. 'Am I lucky? The delightful Duke ([obscure] I mean) is coming down here to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-[1806]
Extent:
1 file

3. Add MS 89036/2/3

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Title:
William Dacres Adams: Letters from Lady Hester Stanhope
Scope & Content:
Letter numbering continues from Add MS 89036/2/2. Letters 64 and 65 are (implicitly) addressed to Pitt rather than Adams. 63-63(i). Cheltenham, 19 June [1807], Lady Stanhope to Adams. 'I have a little little cottage out of town only two stories [sic] high once belonging to a labouring man....' T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1805-1843
Extent:
1 file

4. Add MS 89036/2/4

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Add MS 89036/2/4
Title:
William Dacres Adams: Letters from Charles Banks Stanhope and James Hamilton Stanhope, with Other Stanhope Letters
Scope & Content:
The file comprises in the main letters to Adams from Charles Banks Stanhope and from James Hamilton Stanhope, together with some letters between other members of the Stanhope family (Philip Henry Stanhope to Hester Stanhope) as well as letters to Pitt from the Stanhopes. There is a brief letter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1800-1813
Extent:
1 file