Letter from Bridget Darcy (née Sutton) to Rachel Cavendish (née Russell) Duchess of Devonshire

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

  • Reference
    • GB 2495 CS1/126.0
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1709
  • Physical Description
    • 1 sheet

Scope and Content

The author writes that she thinks her husband has not been getting her post and this is why he has not come for the present occasion and she requests the Duke of Devonshire's help in informing her husband of the political situation as well as how she might get a letter to him that won't go missing. Signed 'B Darcy'. Addressed to the Duchess of Devonshire.

Administrative / Biographical History

Sutton, Bridget d.1736 [wife of the Hon. John Darcy and mother of the 3rd Earl of Holdernesse]