Letter from Lord John Cavendish to Lord Frederick Cavendish

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Scope and Content

Concerns: the many permutations of the potential new Government Adminstration over recent weeks; ministerial instability of June 1757; Holderness's resignation; his visit to Lord Essex's and the unconsumated marriage of the Richmonds; Lady Carlisle's poetry; gossip about Lord Nugent and his lady and their wedding night; Mr John and Lady Betty [Ponsonby?] going to Bath and the Duchess [of Devonshire?]'s complaints about them; sending a watch and chain, some breeches and copies of the London Evening Post. Signed: "J Cavendish". Addressed to Lord Frederick Cavendish.

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