| Description | Letters mainly refer to his depression and health, politics, theology/history (including reference to Catholicism), literature, the Quarterly Review, Oxford and travelling. Includes reference to: French politics [8 Mar 1822]; Sir John Malcom [(1769–1833), diplomatist and administrator in India] [29 Mar 1822]; hesitation in accepting Under Secretaryship from Canning [Oct 1822]; reconciliation with Lyttelton [9 Jan 1823]; European politics [3 Apr 1823]; the sudden death of his father and his inheritance ('the event makes an important change. Whether I shall be happier for it depends something upon my prudence, and something upon my luck... I must own that I am to a certain degree confounded and made nervous by so large a share of the goods of fortune devolving upon a person that has done so little to earn them...') [28 Apr 1823 - 6 May 1823]; Staffordshire ironworks and collieries [6 May 1823]; living at Himley ('much must be done at Himley before I can live there') and peace in Europe ('one shall look back with regret to that happy period when one could wander about Europe just as one pleased') [26 Aug 1823]; Lord Aberdeen [4 Dec 1824]; poets (Campbell and Walter Scott) [9 Jan 1825]; Sedgley vicarage [7 Mar 1826]; and Ward's elevation in the peerage [22 Oct 1827].
Includes letters written from Nice, Turin, Modena, Paris, London, Himley, Stanmore Priory, Genoa, Rome, Naples, Frankfurt and Brighton. |