File 11.27 - Letters from George Granville, Lord Lansdowne to his daughter Grace

20 docs., with explanatory note.

Gift of A. B. Burney, 14 Nov. 1946. A covering note in Burney's hand, explaining the relationships between some of the personages featuring in the letters, accompanies the letters.

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).

Other letters of Lord Lansdowne are to be found at the British Library (Add. MS 70288, to Robert Harley, and Add. MSS 61134 and 61296, to the duke of Marlborough), the Bodleian Library (correspondence with the 6th Baron North), the National Archives of Scotland (letters to Lord Leven), and Newport Central Library, Wales (mostly to Mary Delaney).