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HOUG/36/100
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Copy of letter, 14 Oct. 1809, from Spencer Perceval to John Scott, 1st Baron Eldon
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- [1840 or later] (Creation)
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4 sheets.
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Downing Street. - Encloses Lord Melville's reply [no longer present]; no hope of Vansittart as Chancellor of the Exchequer, will offer position to Robert Pemberton Milnes who could be of great service.
Also contains notes on the life of Lady Crewe copied from the autobiography of Hester Piozzi, including origin of the bluestocking assemblies.
Copy in unidentified hand; paper watermarked 1840.
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- Perceval, Spencer (1762-1812) statesman (Subject)
- Scott, John (1751-1838), 1st Earl of Eldon, lord chancellor (Subject)
- Dundas, Henry (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, politician (Subject)
- Vansittart, Nicholas (1766–1851) first Baron Bexley, politician (Subject)
- Milnes, Robert Pemberton (1784-1858), landowner and politician (Subject)
- Crewe, Frances Anne (c 1748-1818), née Greville, political hostess, wife of John, 1st Baron Crewe (Subject)
- Piozzi, Hester Lynch (1741-1821), née Salusbury, other married name Thrale, writer (Subject)