Copy of a letter from Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington to William Ewart Gladstone

This material is held atThe Devonshire Collection Archives, Chatsworth

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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.

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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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