Add MS 51380

(1) Correspondence of 1st Lord Holland with James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl of Waldegrave, and (ff. 19, 36) the latter's daughter, Elizabeth Laura; 1753 - 1763. The letters of Lord Holland are mostly originals. ff. 1-42b. (2) Correspondence of James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, with Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, and (ff. 58, 63, 64, 71, 72) his private secretary, Andrew Stone; 1752 - 1761. Supplementary to Add MSS 32686-33002. Followed (f. 77) by a letter to Lord Waldegrave from William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, 7 Nov 1762. ff. 43-77. (3) Notes, etc., by James, 2nd Earl Waldegrave. Viz:- (a) Memoirs and notes concerning contemporary public affairs, together with drafts of letters to the Duke of Cumberland, 1757 (f. 87) and the Duke of York, 1762 (f. 106b); 1754 - 1762. Printed in part in Henry Fox ..., i, pp. 361-362, 364-365, ii., pp. 363-365. The memoirs complement, but show no textual resemblance to, Lord Waldegrave's Memoirs from 1754 to 1758, edited by Henry, 3rd Lord Holland (1821). Included (ff. 90-105b) is 'A Parallel', containing a survey of the administration, 1761 - 1762; for texts of this work and of the printed Memoirs, etc., formerly in the Holland House Papers, see Sotheby's sale-cat., 10 Feb 1964, lot 288. ff. 78-107b;- (b) Notes and drafts for speeches in the House of Lords: 1748 - circa 1763, undated. ff. 108-189;- (c) Notes on the history of Europe, including the British Isles, and constitutional history; circa 1742, undated. ff. 191-245b. (4) Papers of Lt.-Gen. John Waldegrave (3rd Earl Waldegrave 1763), while serving in the Seven Years War; 1759 - 1761. ff. 246-255b. Viz:- (a) An engraved, hand-coloured map and plan, entitled 'Les environs de Giesen et de Wetzlar, la situation des armées françoises et anglo-hanovriennes, depuis le 17 de Sept. 1759, et le plan de la fortresse de Giesen, dressé par G. K. L.'. f. 246b;- (b) Letters (Engl. and French) from:- (i) Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, 28 Sep, 19 Oct 1760. ff. 248, 250;- (ii) Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holdernesse, 28 Oct 1760. Signed f. 252;- (iii) Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, 1 Jan 1761. f. 254. Most of the papers in art. (1) and all those in artt. (2) - (4) were formerly in the possession of the Earls Waldegrave and were acquired by Henry, 3rd Lord Holland (see Add MS 52234 E, which contains copies of some of the letters, with related notes, 1822, ff. 1, 44, by John Allen).

Includes correspondence and papers of:

William Cavendish

William Augustus Duke of Cumberland

Robert Darcy

Henry Fox

G.K.L.

Thomas Pelham-Holles

Andrew Stone

Earls. Waldegrave

Honorary Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave

James Waldegrave