Letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby to Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

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Ponsonby writes to SCC to request his opinion on the Royal Buck Hounds. He writes that Queen Victoria is considering retiring the hounds as their use in hunting deer is cruel. He reports of another option to replace the buck hounds with fox hounds. This letter is an enclosure to CS8/1337. Sent from: Windsor Castle, date stamped, 1 March.

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Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.

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