Althorp Papers. Vols. dcxlii-dcxliv. Letters to Spencer from his daughter, Sarah, wife of William Henry, 3rd Baron Lyttelton (1787-1870); 1794-1834. Content includes family news and travels in Europe whilst on honeymoon. On the death of her husband in 1837 Sarah became lady of the bedchamber to Queen Victoria and royal governess from 1842; see The Correspondence of Sarah, Lady Lyttelton ed. Maud Mary Wyndham (1912) and Betty Askwith, The Lytteltons (1975). Three volumes.
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Lady Sarah Lyttelton, governess to children of Queen Victoria: Letters to her father, Lord Spencer: 1794-1834.
Althorp Papers. Vols. dcxlv-dcxlvii. Letters to Spencer from his son, Robert Cavendish Spencer, R.N. (1791-1830), and his daughter, Lady Georgiana Quin (1794-1823); 1798-1830; 1802-1823. Robert Spencer was educated at Harrow and Cambridge, entered the navy in 1804 and served under Captain Hallowell-Carew (see also 75957-75959), and died of fever at Alexandria in 1830; for his naval papers, see Add. MSS 76645-76662. Lady Georgiana Spencer married Lord George Quin and died in childbirth in 182...
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Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, son of George John, 2nd Earl Spencer: Letters to his father: 1798-1830.