Letter from Harriet Elizabeth Leveson-Gower (née Cavendish) to William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

  • Reference
    • GB 2495 CS1/765.101
  • Dates of Creation
    • 30 July [1817]
  • Physical Description
    • 1 sheet

Scope and Content

The author writes to her brother concerning Lord Carlisle eating a roast chicken at Banby Moor and asks what the recipient thinks of Lord Carlisle's affair. She adds that the Ponsonbys are staying and that the attache Caradoc is going to Aix. She also writes that Mary is flourishing and Waller is gone. Unsigned.

Administrative / Biographical History

Cavendish, Harriet Elizabeth 1785 - 1862 [2nd daughter of 5th Duke of Devonshire; m.(1809) Lord Granville Leveson Gower, (1833) Earl Granville]