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Record Id:
040-003463097
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-003463012
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100086205507.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89382/3/1
Title:
Letters to Granville Leveson-Gower, first Earl Granville
Scope & Content:

Letters to Lord Granville from correspondents including Princess Galitzin, Lady Anne Hatton, Lord Morpeth, Baron Boringdon and others.

Contents:

  • f. 1: Letter to ‘Beamer’ [i.e. Lord Granville] addressed ‘My dearest Marc Antony’, signed ‘God Bless thee my own dear Beamer’. Possibly from Lady Anne Hatton (later Hamilton). Undated [1790s].
  • ff. 2-3: Letter to ‘Beamer’ in the same hand. Inscribed in pencil by Castalia Leveson-Gower ‘From Lady Anne Hatton’. Undated [1790s].
  • ff. 4-5: Letter in another hand to Leveson [i.e. Lord Granville], from Lord Morpeth. Brooksby, 3 December 1791.
  • ff. 6-11: Letter to Lord Granville from John Parker, Baron Boringdon. Addressed from Saltram, Sat[urda]y. 22d july [17]97’. Inscribed on verso ‘Morley. Recd. at Lisle.’
  • f. 12: Letter to Lord Granville from E.M. [Lady Elizabeth Monck], concerning the birth of Lady Bessborough and Lord Granville’s son, George Stewart. London, 13 July 1802.
  • f. 13: Letter to Lord Granville from George Canning. 27 July 1804.
  • ff. 14-15: Letter to Lord Granville from his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland. 29 April 1805.
  • ff. 16-44: 11 letters, or part letters, to Lord Granville in French, in the same hand, possibly from Princess Galitzin. Many dated St Petersburg, 1806-1807.
  • ff. 45-49: 3 letters to Lord Granville from Charles Stuart. Petersburg, 2 October 1806, 12 October 1806, and 7 March 1807.
  • ff. 50-53: Letter to Lord Granville from his sister Charlotte Sophia Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1771–1854). 22 May 1807.
  • f. 54-55: Letter to Lord Granville from J. Moore. Richmond Hill, 26 October 1809.
  • ff. 56-57: Letter to Lord Granville, signature illegible. Dated at Lisbon 4 March 1810.
  • ff. 58-61: Letter to Leveson, from William Huskisson, concerning parliamentary elections. Eartham, 18 October 1812.
  • ff. 62-63: Letter to Lord Granville from Sarah Harriet Peterson (maid of Lady Bessborough). Cavendish Square, 3 April 1822. After the death of Lady Bessborough, seeking a loan of £600 for the lease of a house. On black bordered paper.
  • ff. 64-67: Letter to Lord Granville from S H Peterson (maid of Lady Bessborough). Cavendish Square, May 24 1822. Concerning financial support for Miss Harriet Stewart, daughter of Lady Bessborough and Lord Granville, and request for assistance to S H Peterson’s brother, presently Riding Master to the Honourable Company at Ghazeepore, India. On black bordered paper, enclosed in a black bordered wrapper, together with a lock of dark hair in a folded paper package, inscribed ‘Florence, Nov[em]ber 11th six o'clock Sunday morning 1821’ (date of Lady Bessborough’s death), probably in the same hand. Originally in the satin purse which is now at Add MS 89382/3/7.
  • ff. 68-69: Letter to Lord Granville. Dated at Naples, 12 January 1829. Numbered ‘no. 3.’. Incomplete, and unsigned.
  • f. 70: Unsigned manuscript letter, or part letter, possibly in the hand of Lady Anne Hatton. Begins ‘remember I depend upon yr writing to me from every place my dear Ld G every opportunity’. Undated.
  • f. 71-72: Notes for a political speech. Undated.
  • f. 73: ‘Conversation between Buonaparte and Lord Whitworth’. Undated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-003463012
036-003463019
040-003463097
Is part of:
Add MS 89382 : Granville Papers supplementary deposit
Add MS 89382/3 : Correspondence of Lord Granville, Lady Bessborough, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Caroline Lamb, and other friends and members…

 

Add MS 89382/3/1 : Letters to Granville Leveson-Gower, first Earl Granville
Hierarchy:
032-003463012[0003]/036-003463019[0001]/040-003463097
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89382
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file (31 items)
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
French
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1791
End Date:
1829
Date Range:
1791-1829
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:
Foliation: 73 folios.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Gower, Granville, 1st Earl Granville, diplomat, 1773-1846,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000040492055,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/25364007
Hamilton, Anne Jane, née Gore formerly Hatton; wife of John 1st Marquess of Abercorn, 1763-1827
Howard, George, 6th Earl of Carlisle, 1773-1848
Parker, John, 1st Earl of Morley, politician, 1772-1840,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000036245190,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/56035211