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- 1794-1864 (Creation)
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1 vol.
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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.
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Table of contents at front of volume.
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Martin, Theodore. A Life of Lord Lyndhurst : from letters and papers in possession of his family (London: Murray, 1883).
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Housed in a box made especially for the volume, with an inlaid brass handle, and a lock with two keys and an ivory tag.
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- Copley, John Singleton (1772-1863), 1st Baron Lyndhurst, politician and lord chancellor (Subject)
- Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Washington, George (1732–1799), 1st president of the United States (Subject)
- Canning, George (1770–1827), prime minister and parodist (Subject)
- Wellesley, Arthur (1769–1852), 1st Duke of Wellington, army officer and Prime Minister (Subject)
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington (1800-1859), 1st Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet (Subject)
- Peel, Sir Robert (1788-1850), 2nd Baronet, Prime Minister (Subject)
- Lyndhurst, Georgiana (1807-1901), née Goldsmith, wife of John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst, (Subject)
- Grey, Charles (1764-1845), 2nd Earl Grey, prime minister (Subject)
- Copley, John Singleton (1738-1815), painter (Subject)
- Gordon, George Hamilton- (1784-1860) 4th Earl of Aberdeen, statesman (Subject)
- William IV (1765-1837), King of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria (Subject)
- Edgeworth, Maria (1768–1849), novelist and educationist (Subject)
- Brougham, Henry Peter (1778–1868) first Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor (Subject)
- Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith (1799–1869) 14th earl of Derby, prime minister (Subject)
- Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898), Prime Minister and author (Subject)