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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.

Written in answer to Houghton's letter of 29th. Robert Pemberton Milnes hated Mr Shepherd [sic] who was so severe as to be sometimes cruel; his parents were unaware of it at the time and few pupils then would have considered complaining; he was a good classical scholar. Mr Belsham knew nothing and was theologically prejudiced; few gentlemen taught by Belsham except John Cam Hobhouse and sons of Sir Evan Nepean and Sir William Smith. Dissenting background a check to private nature. Robert Pemberton Milnes' private nature. Surprise at his political divergence from the family in famous speech on government of the nation [Apr. 1807]; remembers occasion as it coincided with viewing the corpse of her governess Miss Le Mesurier. Robert Pemberton Milnes was not a Tory by nature but had a personal opposition to Grey and Grenville; he explained his refusal of office on the grounds of unfamiliarity with the task and threat to health, but it must also have arisen from his reservations about the Tory party; her own recollections of his beautiful reading aloud.

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

Mattishall - Trench's sudden return to Ireland, policy of Lord Grey there, wishes to see a volume of English prose specimens, paucity of good work on English literature, hopes to teach classics to a few pupils, advice on keeping fit, would like to see more works by 16th and 17th century thinkers published in English

Cannot 'second the opinion of our Friends [David?] Wilkie and [William?] Collins - I have less hope than ever of my dear old Friend [John Bryant] Lane'. Re his debts and expenses; mentions 'Lord Grey's Bust'; when he gets 'fairly in professional receipts clear of all damned Exhibitions' he will pay Campbell first.