Autograph letter signed from Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to the Duke of Newcastle [manuscript], 1754 March 14.

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Autograph letter signed from Phillip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to the Duke of Newcastle [manuscript], 1754 March 14.

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Requests that Newcastle confirm the arrangement fixed by his late brother Mr. Pelham for his, Chesterfield's son, Mr. Stanhope, chosen by Mr. Elliot for the borough of Liskeard [Cornwall], in the new Parliament.

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