Althorp Papers. Vols. ccci-ccciv. Letters to Lady Spencer from Lady Sarah Spencer, daughter of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, and afterwards wife of William Henry, 3rd Lord Lyttelton; 1797-1813. Excerpts are printed in Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870, ed. Maud Mary Wyndham, Baroness Leconfield (1812). Four volumes. Unbound. 235 x 185 mm. average size.
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Lady Sarah Lyttelton, governess to children of Queen Victoria: Letters to her grandmother, Lady Spencer: 1787-1813.
Althorp Papers. Vol. cccv. Letters to Lady Spencer from her other Spencer grandchildren; 1790-1814. Unbound. 245 x 190 mm. average size. Contents: 1. Letters from John Charles, Viscount Althorp, afterwards 3rd Earl Spencer; 1790-1810. 2. Letter from Frederick, afterwards 4th Earl Spencer; 18...
Althorp Papers. Vol. cccvi-cccviii. Correspondence of Lady Spencer with her daughter, Henrietta, wife of Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, 3rd Earl of Bessborough; [1768?]-1814. The letters from Lady Bessborough, chiefly of the period 1809-1814, represent only a fraction of those she wrote to her mother, the remainder having been returned to her family after Lady Spencer's death in 1814. Those of Lady Spencer end in 1789. A few of them, and others after 1789, are printed in Lady Bessbo...
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Henrietta Ponsonby, wife of Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough: Letters to her mother, Lady Spencer: [1768?]-1814.