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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.

Authors include: George Canning, George Ellis, William Elliot, William Henry Freemantle, Robert Grant, J R Grossett, Francis Horner, Thomas Kennedy, William Lamb, Charles Long, James Macdonald, Sir James Mackintosh, Dr Herbert Marsh, Viscount Morpeth, George Lord Nugent, Dr Phillimore, David Ricardo, Sir Samuel Romilly, Earl of Rosebery, Charles Tennyson, Samuel Whitbread and William Windham

Admiralty. - On Spencer Perceval's dilemma over appointment to Chancellor of the Exchequer: Palmerston's own future prospects of office; 'Milnes would probably not take it unless his ambition got the better of his partiality for Canning & his aversion to Perceval, and, though a man of very brilliant talents, I should much doubt his steadiness'.

Copy in unidentified hand.