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O./11.27 · File · 1733-1734
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Letters largely concerned with family matters. Relatives mentioned include 'your Aunt Orkney' [Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney]; Grace's half-brother Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth and his wife Louisa, née Carteret, whom he married in the span of these letters; Grace's 'sister [Mary] Graham', 'Lady Granville' [Grace Carteret, 1st Countess Granville], her godmother; her mother Mary, née Villiers, 'unkle' Henry Villiers, and mother's cousin William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin; Lord Carteret [later 2nd Earl Granville] and his wife Frances.

Topics of interest in the letters include April Fools (letter 6, 31 Mar. 1733), pick-pocketing at Bartholomew Fair (letter 13, 28 Aug. 1733), and an attack of smallpox suffered by Grace's sister Betty (letter 17, 8 Dec. 1833, and following).

Granville, George (1666-1735), 1st Baron Lansdowne and Jacobite duke of Albemarle, politician and writer
HOUG/E/B/8/1 · Item · 9 May 1881
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

61 Hercules Buildings, Lambeth Road, London S.E. - Graham was formerly a railway engineer at Leeds; has suffered in the trade conflicts and seeking work. Postscript: Graham's dignified demeanour caused jealousy. Enclosure: printed address to James Graham from fellow workmen at the North Eastern Railway Locomotive Department, Leeds, 'on his leaving to partake of a better situation'.

Add. MS a/775 · Item · [c 1925]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

A note clarifying Macaulay's quote about women of noble families marrying the divines of the time, in response to a claim in Churchill Babington's Mr Macaulay's Character of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century Considered.

Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian, public educator, and conservationist
HOUG/E/B/5/37 · Item · 28 Jun. 1859
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Halstead, Essex. - Originally came to Ferrybridge to be near Mr Pym; did not feel suited in his position; kindness of the Milnes family; Milnes' services to Pontefract should be recognised with a peerage. Postscript: has taken curacy of Little Maplestead for a year.

With footnote by Annabella Hungerford Milnes and engraving of Little Maplestead Church dated 5 May 1853.