Personal letters and papers relating to significant moments in Lansdowne’s official career. 1. Letters on his resignation as Under Secretary for India, 1880. 2. Letters on his appointment as Governor-General of Canada, 1883. Includes a cutting from the Montreal Post attacking Lansdowne for the...
Volume of political notes by Lord Lansdowne. Includes notes on Boswell’s life of Johnson and Macaulay’s essay on Chatham, on ‘Perils of Reform’ (Quarterly Review, July 1872) and ‘Financial grievances of Ireland’ (Quarterly Review, October 1872), and on Lord Selborne’s speech in the House of Lord...
Family correspondence: 1. Correspondence regarding the reversion of Holland House after the deaths of Lord and Lady Holland, including letters to Lord Shelburne (later the 4th Marquess) from Henry Ellison and Edward Cheney on the death of Lord Holland, 1859, and letters to the 5th Marquess fro...
Personal papers of the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne. Contents include: 1. Commission as Captain in the Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry; 1865. 2. Letter to Lady Louisa Howard from Emily Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne, on the feelings of ‘Clan’ (Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Viscount Clanmaurice...
Correspondence relating to the 5th Marquess’s birth and education. 1. Birth and baptismal certificates of the 5th Marquess; 1845. Printed, with manuscript insertions. 2. Letters to Lady Shelburne concerning the education of her sons Lord Henry (Viscount Clanmorris; later the 5th Marquess of La...