Althorp Papers Vol. cdlxxii. Correspondence, inventories, valuations, lists of legatees, etc., relating to the settlement of Lady Spencer's estate; 1814-1822. Unbound. 350 x 210 mm.
Mission to Vienna Althorp Papers. Vols. cdlxxiii, cdlxxiv. Correspondence and papers concerning Lord Spencer's mission to Vienna; 1794. Partly French. Spencer was appointed by Pitt the Younger and Lord Grenville as Ambassador Extraordinary. to Vienna between July and December 1794 to negotiate Austrian cooperation for the defence of the Netherlands against French invasion. He was accompanied by Thomas Grenville (Lord Grenville’s brother). An enclosure and an introductory note by Cavendish S...
Papers of the 2nd Earl Spencer Althorp Papers. Vols. cdlxxiii-mlxviii. Correspondence and papers of George John Spencer (1758-1834), Viscount Althorp, 2nd Earl Spencer (1783). Spencer was M.P. for Northampton (1780-1782) and for Surrey (1782-1783); junior lord of the Treasury (March-July 1782); privy councillor and lord keeper of the privy seal (July-Dec. 1794); First Lord of the Admiralty (1794-1801); Secretary of State for the Home Office (1806-1807); Elder Brother of Trinity House (1795-...
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George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer: Correspondence and papers of George John Spencer: 1794-1834.
Admiralty Althorp Papers. Vols. cdlxxv-dlxviii. Correspondence and papers of Spencer as First Lord of the Admiralty; 1640-1801, but chiefly 1794-1801. Partly copies. Partly French. Many letters have a paper guard attached with a summary indicating their author, date and subject. Those numbered in red were bound in to an earlier volume. Many are endorsed with the writer's name and date and some have their bottom right-hand corner folded over in the Admiralty tradition to allow for a draft re...
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Admiralty: Correspondence and papers of 2nd Lord Spencer as First Lord: 1794-1801.