Letter from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston to William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire

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Lord Palmerston writes to SCC's father to request if they can appoint SCC as Lay Lord of the Admiralty as Samuel Whitbread is retiring. He writes that SCC has much ability and that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset, would be pleased to have SCC on board. Sent from: 94 Picadilly, London, 7 Feb.

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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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