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Volume with the title page "The Lyndhurst Papers used by Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B. in writing The Life of Lord Lyndhurst published in 1884." The letters and writings have been tipped in and pasted in with cutouts to show both sides. The letters include those from Queen Victoria (to Lady Lyndhurst), Earl Grey, George Washington (to J. S. Copley senior), George Canning, the Duke of Wellington, T. B. Macaulay, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Robert Peel, King William (1835), Prince Albert, Maria Edgeworth, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Derby, and W. E. Gladstone.

Argyll House. - Unwilling to join Committee for subscription to Lamartine: acknowledges his courage but 'cannot forget that we owe the creation of the Republick to him; and that his voice might have preserved the Dynasty'; literary merits might justify cause, but Aberdeen cannot promote it.

Letters dated 13 Nov. 1841 - 2 Nov. 1853.

Vicarage, Isle-Brewers near Langport in Staffordshire. - When Wolff was imprisoned at Bokhara Lord Aberdeen promised a clerkship in the Foreign Office for his son; asks if Milnes will intercede on his behalf with Aberdeen's successor Lord Palmerston. On his own behalf, seeks subscribers to the third edition of his work; heavy losses on first two editions; current parish expenses.

Part of a collection gathered by Cordelia Whewell. See also items in this box: 5-25, 114-125, and 273-323.

Franks of:

• George Hamilton-Gordon, the 4th Earl of Aberdeen
• John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp
• Thomas Howard, Viscount Andover
• Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Baron Ashley
• Richard Grosvenor, Viscount Belgrave
• Somerset Lowry-Corry, Earl of Belmore
• Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley
• Thomas Haddington, Lord Binning
• George Spencer-Churchill, Marquess of Blandford
• George Augustus Frederick Henry, 2nd Earl of Bradford
• John Jeffreys Pratt, Earl of Brecknock
• Frederick William Hervey , 5th Earl of Bristol
• Charles Brudenell-Bruce, Lord Bruce
• Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Duke of Buckingham
• Marquess of Bute
• George William Frederick Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle
• Viscount Castlereagh
• Earl of Clanbrassil
• Edward Bligh, Lord Clifton
• Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
• James, 2nd Baron De Saumarez
• Arthur Wills Blundell Sandys Trumbull Windsor Hill, 4th Marquess Devonshire
• Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington
• Richard Hare, Viscount Ennismore
• Baron Rt. Hon Sir Charles Long Farnborough
• Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam
• Alan Legge Gardner, 3rd Baron Gardner
• A. [Hay?]
• William Henry Ashe Holmes-à Court, 2nd Baron Heytesbury
• [Howe?]
• Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey
• George Gordon, 9th Marquess of Huntly
• [Jermyn?]
• Thomas Taylour, Lord Kenlis
• Edmond Henry Pery, Earl of Limerick
• Viscount Loftus
• William Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
• William Henry Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton
• [Mackintosh?]
• Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers
• Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton
• Gilbert Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
• Henry James Scott Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton
• George Howard, Viscount Morpeth
• Henry Francis Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles
• Thomas Spring-Rice, 1st Lord Monteagle
• [Napier?]
• Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
• Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess Northampton
• [Northwick?]
• John Savile, Viscount Pollington
• Sir Thomas William Brograve Proctor Beauchamp
• Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe
• Thomas Lister, 1st Baron Ribblesdale
• George, 3rd Baron Rodney
• John, 1st Baron Rolle
• Archibald John Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
• Charles Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond
• [Stanley?]
• [Strathavon?]
• Thomas Howard, 16th Earl Suffolk
• William Russell, Marquess of Tavistock
• Sackville Tufton, 9th Earl of Thanet
• William John Cavendish Scott Bentinck, Marquess of Tichfield
• William Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge
• Ernest Edgcumbe, Viscount Valletort
• Thomas, Baron Wallace
• James Archibald Stuart Wortley Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe
• [Wilberforce?]
• [Wilton?]
• Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester
• Charles Anderson Pelham, Baron Worsley
• Illegible signatures

Re memorial to George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen.