Letter 2641

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – October 19, 1729


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Date: October 19, 1729
Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 160



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Fol. 160 I send you here enclosed two extracts of my sister Lincoln’s letters, relating to Ld Clinton’s case as well as the rest of the children, which I beg you will consider of and lett me have your opinion and advice upon it in writing some time tomorrow…

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).




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