Letter from Lord Frederick Cavendish to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

Scope and Content

Concerns: advice to the 4th Duke of Devonshire to care for his health: "if you set in that room in London and fret yourself about our damned politics, you'll kill yourself, go down to Chatsworth look at your works and keep yourself out in the air the whole day"; comments on political and military events; his disapproval of the Duke of Newcastle's plans for the war. Written from Rulle. Signed: "F. Cavendish".

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