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A "private" letter from Lord Charles Cornwallis in Calcutta to Viscount Sydney in which he gives his thoughts on India and some of the earlier administrators: "…there are many very able & very honest men in the Company's service in Bengal." He comments that his conduct "…of this war or that war, & I believe I have made very few enemies by it." February 19, 1787.

Scope and Contents Letter from Lord Eldon John Scott, First Earl of Eldon, Corfe Castle, to his daughter Lady Elizabeth Repton, London, dated September 8, 1829. Asks her to send any political news she might hear and love to her and his grandson. Book page with print of "John Scott, First Earl of Eldon, Lord High Chancellor of England" engraved by HY Robinson.

Lord Halifax, British Embassy, Washington, D.C.to The Rt. Rev. Herbert Welch, New York City, New York responds to a request that the English Methodist Church fund credit in the United States be remitted to Uruguay. Lord Fairfax notes that the United Methodist Church should "surrender to the Exchange Control at the Bank of England all its dollar funds." May 31, 1941. Lord Halifax was the British Ambassador to the United States in 1941. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax.

Lord John Russell, Pembroke Lodge, to the author of an essay on Thomas Macaulay, praising his writing and hoping he would edit a book by Macaulay with his essay as an introduction. Russell also cites his praises for Macaulay, then adding "perhaps in painting his characters he made his lights too bright, & his shade too deep, a defect perhaps inseparable from his wonderful powers of …" November 2, 18??. Macaulay died on December 28, 1859.

Engraving of Lord Nelson by T Woolnoth from an original picture by Hoppner in her Majesty's Collection at St James's.

Lord Palmerston writes that the "Duke of Wellington has accepted the Office of 1st Lord of the Treasury and we are to give up the seals of office at St. James's tomorrow." November 15, 1834.

Reply by Lord Palmerston to someone approving of the labors of the Foreign Office. Signed "Palmerston." March 5, 1832. Henry John Temple Palmerston (Third Viscount).

Lord Palmerton, Prime Minister, to Henry Labouchere, Secretary of State for the Colonies, about the charge by Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Attorney General of Hong Kong, that John Walter Hulme, Chief Justice in Hong Kong, was drunk at the Governor's table. He repeats comments by Bowring [Sir John Bowring] who was at the dinner. He warns that this matter needs to be handled carefully since Anstey's correspondence is damaging and Hong Kong is not a "very favorite establishment in our House." He suggests investigating Hulme's character and the prejudices of those bringing the charge, especially Anstey who is "violent and intemperate." August 27, 1856. Carte de visite of Lord Palmerton is included.

Lord Randolph S. Churchill asks Mr. [J.I.] Minchin to excuse him from attending the Chess Tournament dinner on May 19 because he needs rest after a hard work session in Parliament and will be traveling to Ireland during the Whitsuntide Holidays. May 5, 1883. The letter is written on 2 Connaught Place stationary. The London 1883 chess tournament was an international tournament. Lord Randolph S. Churchill is the father of Winston Churchill.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain thanks R.R. Ulyate for the gift of stationery, on which he is writing his thanks. The stationery is an advertisement for Arusha, decorated with printed small maps of Africa and Arusha, written directions and a letterhead with the address "Neville Chamberlain, P.O. Arusha, Tanganyika." He mentions that he thinks the "High Commissioner, if and when appointed, will have a new residence." February 4, 1930. Ray Ulyate was a resident of Arusha where he led tours into the jungle, and one of the first to emphasize photography, and operated The New Arusha Hotel.