SCC writes concerning the dire state of the family finances. He asks Lady Louisa to inform Margaret Ponsonby that "money cannot be shorter anywhere than it is here...and I am afraid I cannot buy diamonds". He also writes asking Lady Louisa if she recalls their father ever mentioning "Mr Eddy and what they call the Devonshire Minerals". Sent from: Devonshire House, London.
Letter from Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire to Lady Louisa Egerton (nee Cavendish)
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- Dates of Creation23 April 1894
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