Letter from Spencer Compton Cavendish to Georgiana Howard, Countess of Carlisle

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SCC writes to his maternal grandmother, wishing her well after she has had influenza. He writes that he has been reading Captain Cook to his father [William Cavendish, 2nd Earl of Burlington]. He writes that he and his sister[ Lady Louisa Cavendish] have received prayerbooks and they have a kitchen garden and an unfinished flower garden. He reports that he has managed to ride often in spite of the weather. Sent from: Holker, date stamped: 28 March.

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Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.

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