BIB_ID
193054
Accession number
MA 9333
Creator
Charleville, Charles William Bury, Earl of, 1764-1835.
Display Date
[1835 January] 28.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 19.0 cm.
Notes
Previously accessioned as MA 3893.
The year and month of writing from postmark. He dates the letter "Tuesday 28/35" however Tuesday was the 27th of January. There are two postmarks on the letter, January 29 and January 30.
The election was held January 6 - February 6, 1835.
The letter is signed "An Elector."
C.M. Westmacott was a British author and editor of The Age.
Address panel with seal and postmarks and marked "Private" to "C.M. Westmacott Esq. / 1. Catherine Street / Strand / London."
The letter is marked "Private" above and to the left of the salutation.
The year and month of writing from postmark. He dates the letter "Tuesday 28/35" however Tuesday was the 27th of January. There are two postmarks on the letter, January 29 and January 30.
The election was held January 6 - February 6, 1835.
The letter is signed "An Elector."
C.M. Westmacott was a British author and editor of The Age.
Address panel with seal and postmarks and marked "Private" to "C.M. Westmacott Esq. / 1. Catherine Street / Strand / London."
The letter is marked "Private" above and to the left of the salutation.
Summary
Concerning his son's campaign for a seat in the House of Commons; reproving him for intimating that Freshfield was asked to resign: "You have gotten us conservatives into a pretty scrape by saying we asked Freshfield to resign - We were always sure of returning two conservatives, if they acted honestly - When we saw indications from his agents & Rolfes canvassing together, of an intended junction, we asked him leave to withdraw our votes, not to injure L'd Tullamores cause - and he answered it by an address, saying 'he would not coalesce with either candidate;" taking issue with the London Press; suggesting he might admit he was "in error about the desire on our part to request for F. to withdraw - You understand the London Press better than we do - & how far it is wise for you to go on. Perhaps you wish to show you had some grounds for writing what you did - But at all events, you may allude to the dinner - if you think it will do you, the cause, & Lord T. good;" adding that his son may be in London at the same time the letter arrives; adding, in a postscript, "Every one talks of a coalition about here, but perhaps they have got another name for it in London - we conservatives are so slow - & so far removed from civilisation."
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