Add MS 88906/11/31

Miscellaneous correspondence and papers of the 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne; 1802-1860, n.d. Contents as follows:

1. Letter from John Barlow, regarding a newly invented safety match, 17 October 1855.

2. Letter from Messrs G. Bradshaw & Co., soliciting a subscription to Bradshaw’s railway maps, 1839.

3. Letter from W. Cox, regarding the petition of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury against Catholic emancipation, 29 January 1813; with a draft of Lansdowne’s reply.

4. Letter from W. Wallace Currie, giving an account of his travels in France, 20 October 1840; with Lansdowne’s reply.

5. Letter from Mme [? Durozko], Paris, 19 January 1824.

6. Letter from A[rthur] Malet, of Wilbury, co. Wiltshire, enclosing a copy of a letter from the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir John St Aubyn, discovered among his family papers, 9 April 1856.

7. Letter from A.L. Voullaine, enclosing a letter from his father to the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne discovered among his family papers, 23 November 1860.

8. Letters from unidentified correspondents.

9. Bills from wine merchants, florists, plumassiers, etc., 1817-35, n.d. Partly printed, with manuscript additions.

10. Papers relating to Lansdowne’s tour of the Continent with his tutor Etienne Dumont, 1802.

11. Envelope containing a Massachusetts two-dollar note, n.d. [late 18th cent.]. Printed.

12. Printed items, including A Letter to the Reviewer of the Memoirs of Don Manuel de Godoy (1836), and an invitation to a meeting of the Political Economy Club, 6 April 1837.

13. Certificate of Lansdowne’s admission as a Free Burgess of Dundee, 28 June 1797. Printed, with manuscript additions.

14. Oath of allegiance of Hugh Percy on his consecration as Bishop of Rochester, [1827].