Letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby to Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

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Ponsonby writes to SCC regarding Kandahar in Afghanistan. He writes that Queen Victoria does not wish for a hasty decision to be made on retaining or retreating from the position. He writes they should not abandon the "Chief[s]" that were loyal to the British cause. Sent from: Balmoral, date stamped, 3 Sept.

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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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