Letter from Dorothy Boyle (née Savile) Countess of Burlington to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns the possible purchase of Duke of Queensberry's estate and Mr Arundell and Mr Collins assistance with this; the death of Walsingham Boyle; her purchase of the Fairfaxes' house [No.1 Savile Row] as "it would be a pretty thing for one of the younger ones" [it did indeed become the house of her grandsons Richard and later George, years after her death]; fixtures in the Fairfaxes' house she may bid for; the 4th Duke's bad eyes; seeing the 4th Duke's siblings and the Duchess of Devonshire; Lady Rachel taking Mr Seward's parsonage house at Eyam. Written from Chiswick. Signed: "DB".

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