Letter from John George Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham to Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington

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Lord Durham writes concernng a possible bye-election in Sunderland. He writes that "his brother and Austin (the Conservative)" have a "good chance of turning out the Home Rule members". He writes inviting SCC to speak in Sunderland as "the only man who would please them all" and "the Sunderland ship-owners have not yet forgiven Chamberlain for his shipping speeches". Sent from: Lambton Castle, Fence Houses. Letter is marked "private".

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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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