Correspondence, 1835-1836

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Correspondents include: Lord Brougham, King William IV, Sir Herbert Taylor, Joseph Hume, Samuel Egerton Brydges (13th Baron Chandos), Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Lord Northampton, Viscount Morpeth, the Duke of Richmond, Viscount Duncannon, Sir John Newport, the Knight of Kerry, Thomas Drummond, Lord Glengall, Lord John Russell, Rt. Hon. R. Fitzgibbon, Francis Baring, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston and Arthur Guinness.

Subjects include: Responsibilities of the office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, particularly the state of the economy, taxation and patronage. Also discusses the colonial secretary of NSW, charges of nepotism, Irish elections politics, Cambridge affairs, municipalreform, London University.

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