SCC writes concerning Irish Home Rule and the creation of an Irish Legislative Body. He writes refusing office, gives his reasons for this and that "every public utterance which I have ever made in or out of Parliament has pledged me too deeply against it to enable me without a loss of honour...to take part in a policy directed to this object". Sent from: Devonshire House, London.
Copy of a letter from Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington to William Ewart Gladstone
This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth
- Reference
- GB 2495 CS8/1922
- Former Reference
- GB 2495 CS2/340/1922, CS8/340/1922
- Dates of Creation
- 30 January 1886
- Name of Creator
- Physical Description
- 1 letter 3 sheets
Scope and Content
Arrangement
Arranged in accordance with ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition, Ottawa 2000 and The Devonshire Collection Cataloguing Guidelines.
Access Information
Copyright held by Chatsworth House Trust.