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Crewe MS/51/f. 5r
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Letter from W. E. Gladstone to Lord Houghton
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- 1 Aug. 1882 (Creation)
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10 Downing Street, Whitehall.—He should have liked to make an offer to Houghton’s son, but felt it his duty to offer the opening—‘rather a small one’—to his nephew Spencer Lyttelton, who was one of his private secretaries when he was a minister and who has been working as an unpaid assistant with Granville since April 1880. Granville will probably want to supply his place, and Gladstone has told him that the two men he had in mind for his own post, after Lyttelton, were Houghton’s son and Hallam Tennyson.
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