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Lord Charles Cornwallis to Viscount Sydney, 1787 Box 1, Folder 24

A "private" letter from Lord Charles Cornwallis in Calcutta to Viscount Sydney in which he gives his thoughts on India and some of the earlier administrators: "…there are many very able & very honest men in the Company's service in Bengal." He comments that his conduct "…of this war or that war, & I believe I have made very few enemies by it." February 19, 1787.

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Lord Eldon John Scott to Lady Elizabeth Repton, 1829 Box 1, Folder 3

Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Eldon John Scott, First Earl of Eldon, Corfe Castle, to his daughter Lady Elizabeth Repton, London, dated September 8, 1829. Asks her to send any political news she might hear and love to her and his grandson. Book page with print of "John Scott, First Earl of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of England" engraved by HY Robinson.

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Lord Halifax to The Rt. Rev. Herbert Welch, 1941 Box 1, Folder 61

Lord Halifax, British Embassy, Washington, D.C.to The Rt. Rev. Herbert Welch, New York City, New York responds to a request that the English Methodist Church fund credit in the United States be remitted to Uruguay. Lord Fairfax notes that the United Methodist Church should "surrender to the Exchange Control at the Bank of England all its dollar funds." May 31, 1941. Lord Halifax was the British Ambassador to the United States in 1941. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

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Lord John Russell to Unknown, 1859 Box 1, Folder 35

Lord John Russell, Pembroke Lodge, to the author of an essay on Thomas Macaulay, praising his writing and hoping he would edit a book by Macaulay with his essay as an introduction. Russell also cites his praises for Macaulay, then adding "perhaps in painting his characters he made his lights too bright, & his shade too deep, a defect perhaps inseparable from his wonderful powers of …" November 2, 18??. Macaulay died on December 28, 1859.

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