Record

Document Reference	Pw M 335
Title	Letter from George A.F. Cavendish Bentinck, Whitehaven [Cumberland] to Rawdon Brown; 23-28 October [no year]
Date	23-28 October no year
Extent	2 ff (plus envelope)
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Regrets that he is unable to leave England before the Whitehaven election, and fears that the Radicals have been doing their best to defeat the Lowther interest there. Compares his election struggle to that of the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo. Regrets that he is unable to plan a trip to Venice until he knows what date Parliament assembles, but would like his wife and children to stay in Venice until spring. Brief discussion of Brown's latest volume of the 'Calendars...' and editing the Gasparo Contarini dispatches.
Term	politics, local, Cumberland
	elections, Whitehaven (Cumberland)
	travel, Italy

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA650	Brown; Rawdon Lubbock (1803-1883); historian; editor of Calendars of Venetian State Papers	1803-1883
NA1107	Bentinck; George A.F. Cavendish- (1821-1891); Mr; M.P.; son of Lord Frederick Bentinck	1821-1891
NA1108	Bentinck; Prudence Penelope Cavendish- (-1896); Mrs; née Leslie; daughter of Charles Powell Leslie; married George A.F. Cavendish-Bentinck in 1851	-1896