Autograph letter signed with initials : Leeds, to his sister Margaret, 1832 Dec. 8.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : Leeds, to his sister Margaret, 1832 Dec. 8.

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Reporting that he was "shocked and deeply grieved ... to hear the sad news of [Thomas Hyde] Villiers's death"; telling her that he is taking a vacant government office and will have unlimited franking in his new position; asking her not to tell people that he has unlimited franking; expressing his distress at the prospect of Margaret's marriage: "on Saturday I shall return to that home which is no longer to be the home of my dearest Margaret ... farewell dearest, dearest, dearest. What are the anxieties of elections and of office. What is even the death of common friends to the bitterness of this parting."

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

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