Concerns his comments on Lord Bute's resignation: "Lord Bute's undertaking seeming to me the Matter of Astonishment, not His Lordship's departing from it...The Period of this Country's Decadency seems begun; The System held forth with Regard to Finances, since the Fatal Peace, being almost as ruinous as The Peace itself". Original written from Hayes and signed "W Pitt".
Copy letter from William Pitt to Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
- Reference
- GB 2495 CS4/1886
- Former Reference
- GB 2495 CS1/463.32
- Dates of Creation
- 9 April 1763
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- 1 sheet
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