Correspondence, 1837-1839

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File MS 543

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Correspondents include: Francis Baring, Matthew Barrington, Sir Francis Burdett, the Archbishops of Canterbury and Dublin, Thomas Drummond, Lord Duncannon, Maria Edgeworth, William Empson, Hon. Richard Fitzgibbon, Lord Holland, Joseph Hume, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Melbourne, Lord Morpeth, Lord Normanby, Sir John Newport, William Smith O'Brien, Lord Palmerston, Sir Henry Parnell, Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell, Lord Shaftesbury, Lord Sligo and Sir Aubrey deVere.

Subjects include: Duties as Chancellor of the Exchequer, economic affairs and politics, particularly revenue, excise and patronage, colonisation, land grants in Australia to officers, problems of cessation of transportation, emigration to colonies, criticisms of Molesworth Committee report, Poland, tithes, church rates, Irish education, illicit distillation, the University of London, distress in Scotland, Belfast and Tralee harbours, and railways in Ireland.

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