Letter from John Arthur Roebuck, New Milton, to Catherine Gore, 1850 December 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing to let her know that he "left in my room enough Morphine to poison the household dogs included" along with a measuring glass, which he suggests her butler take possession of, to be return to him should chance "favour me, that I may some day see the light of his countenance."; remarking that "The P.M.G. volunteered to ask a question for me of the Duke of Bedford and said that he could send me a history of the answer" and adding that he had better write to him, as he doesn't intend to be in London before February; discussing political affairs, stating that "The P.M.G. - don't like his Whig friends (I guess)", and mentioning Lord Grey, Canning, and Lord Brougham; concluding that he has "won and kept "the gratitude of the P.M.", but that he is "sure there is a strong under current of dislike running in his mind against many of the leaders - of the Whig party - and the contemptuous phrases[?] of Canning respecting them".