Lord Salisbury writes he has been informed that a position of Lord Justiceship will shortly become vacant and he asks SCC whether he believes it would be post that Sir Henry James would be interested in taking. He further writes that having had a Lordship of Appeal in his hands, Sir Henry would perhaps feel the post to be inferior to that "both in involvement and dignity". Sent from: London. Letter is marked "confidential" and is written on Foreign Office headed paper.
Letter from Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury to Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
- Reference
- GB 2495 CS8/2459
- Former Reference
- GB 2495 CS2/340/2459, CS8/340/2459
- Dates of Creation
- 14 May 1892
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- 1 letter
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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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