Correspondence

Title

Correspondence

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. d. 3833

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. ii-xvi) an index of contents

letters from Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, to:

(fols. 1-2) Sir Robert Walpole, June 1727

(fols. 3-4) Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, n.d.

letter to Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, from:

(fols. 15-16) David Hume, 1768

letters to George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt from:

(fol. 12) William Pitt, May 1784

(fols. 13-14) Lord Montagu, Sept. 1762

(fol. 29) Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry, 1769

(fols. 36) Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, Apr. 1777

(fols. 38-182) Frances Temple, Viscountess Palmerston, Sept. 1763-Sept. 1768

letters to Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt, from:

(fols. 19-28) ? Addenbrooke, Dean of Lichfield, May 1765-Jan. 1776

(fol. 29) Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry, 1769

(fols. 30-3) Anna Grenville-Temple, Countess Temple, Oct.-Dec. 1773, Dec. 1775

(fols. 34-5) Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, Dec. 1772

(fol. 37) Miss Faquiere, concerning the death of Countess Harcourt's mother Martha Venables-Vernon, Lady Vernon, [1794]

and

(fols. 5-6) epitaph, in latin, by Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, to John Phillipps, [1727?]

(fols. 7) copy of a letter of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, concerning George, Prince of Wales's interest in botany, Sept. 1757

(fols. 8-9) copy of a letter from William Pulteney to George III concerning his accession to the throne, Nov. 1760

(fols. 10-11) letter from William Pitt to his sister Anne rejecting her request for the parole of the Chevalier d'Excess as a prisoner of war, July 1760

(fols. 17-18) epitaph by Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford, to Lucy North, Lady Guilford, Katherine North, Countess of Guilford and Elizabeth North, Lady Guilford, n.d.

Date

1727, 1757-84, n.d.

Language

English

Physical extent

185 Leaves