BIB_ID
189648
Accession number
MA 22896.1
Creator
Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838.
Display Date
Corfe Castle, England, 1829 September.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.0 cm
Notes
See also MA 22896.2 and MA 22896.3.
Housed with an unsigned draft of a letter to the Editor of the Standard, docketed "March 16, 1829 / My letter to Editor of Standard suggesting a Ch[urch] building fund to be raised as a monument to L. Eldon." From a letter, cited below, it seems likely that this draft was written by William Surtees (1750-1832). See MA 22896.3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916, vol. V, p. 361.
Housed with an unsigned draft of a letter to the Editor of the Standard, docketed "March 16, 1829 / My letter to Editor of Standard suggesting a Ch[urch] building fund to be raised as a monument to L. Eldon." From a letter, cited below, it seems likely that this draft was written by William Surtees (1750-1832). See MA 22896.3.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916, vol. V, p. 361.
Summary
Regretting that he is unable to help him now that he is no longer Chancellor and suggesting he does not remember the matter at hand "...amidst the universal Claims upon a Chancellor, I had the means of doing so I regret it the more, because I cannot make the Application to the Chancellor for the Living you mention - and tho' you, Sir, think that I have now a powerful Influence, which exerted might be useful - Under present Circumstances I sincerely assure you that I have it not. If I had it, I should be glad to be useful in the way you wish. At present I regret that I have not the power of being so useful. I am sorry to send you this answer, but I cannot avoid doing so."
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