Letter from the 3rd Duke of Buckingham, with related material.
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Letter from the 3rd Duke of Buckingham, with related material.
Classmark: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Buckingham
Creator(s): Grenville, Richard Plantagenet Campbell Nugent Brydges Chandos
Date(s): c.1772-1865
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 letter (1 f.), 7 autographs, 5 portraits, 5 press-cuttings, and 1 photograph, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript, photograph, and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8120
Description
Comprises 1 autograph letter from the 3rd Duke of Buckingham to 'Mr. Shaw' dated 30 April 1863 (with transcript), 7 autographs written chiefly on stamped-addressed envelopes by Dukes of Buckingham between 22 June 1823 and [15?] January 1865, 5 portraits of different Dukes of Buckingham, namely, Henry Stafford, John Sheffield, George Marquis of Buckingham, and the 1st and 2nd Dukes of Buckingham in the Grenville family, 1 photograph probably of the 3rd Duke of Buckingham, Grenville family, and 3 press-cuttings concerning three of these dukes dated from ca. 1772 in the Universal Magazine to the mid-nineteenth century.
The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also a transcript of the letter, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Biography or history
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1823-1889), the statesman. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.
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