Althorp Papers. Vol. mcdlxxx b. Rent and rates tables; 1835-1843. Rough notes and calculations regarding rents received from tenants at St James's Place, London, and rateable value of Spencer House and stables for poor rates. ff. 12.
Althorp Papers. Vols. mcdlxxxi a. St. James's Rents; 1846-1855. Contains details of half yearly rent payments of tenants at St James's Place, London. Accounts drawn up and signed as correct by George Appleyard. 286 x 200 mm.
Althorp Papers. Vols. mcdlxxxi b. Papers relating to Sir John Harding's rent; 1854. Contains rough calculations of rent and letters to George Appleyard and the Earl Spencer concerning the rent. ff. 4.
Althorp Papers. Vol. mcdlxxxii. Ledger A; 1847-1852. Contains details of Spencer House's quarterly income and expenditure and includes a classified section which breaks down expenditure under specific heads such as fuel, wine and spirits, furniture and repairs, and groceries. Accounts drawn up a...
Althorp Papers. Vols. mcdlxxxiii-mcdxcv. Letters from his wife, Charlotte, fourth daughter of Frederick Charles William Seymour. For Spencer's letters to Charlotte, see Add. MSS 77639-77653 below. For Charlotte’s memoirs see Northamptonshire Record Office, SOX80; 1835-1903. Thirteen volumes.
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Charlotte Spencer, wife of John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer: Letters to her husband: 1858-1900.
Papers of the 5th Earl Spencer Althorp Papers. Vols. mcdlxxxiii-mmdxli. The career of the Liberal politician John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer, covered the last four decades of the 19th century and the opening years of the 20th century, an era largely dominated by W. E. Gladstone and by the politics of empire, domestic reform and Ireland. Famous for his bushy red beard which gave him his nickname, ‘The Red Earl’, he served in all of Gladstone’s four governments, for the full term of eac...
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John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer: Correspondence and papers of John Poyntz Spencer: 1835-1910.