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Document number: 3041
Date: 15 Jan 1835
Postmark: 15 Jan 1835
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SCROPE George Julius Duncombe Poulett
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 20073 (envleope only)
Last updated: 26th January 2015

Castle Combe
January 15

Dear Talbot.

Much obliged for your gratulations <1> – We will drive with you with pleasure on Tuesday next, should that day suit you – and if I hear nothing further from you, shall conclude it does – But, unless the weather should prove desperately bad we will not trouble you for a dormitory, but return at night. The Elections are going on favourably, I think. All the trumps have turned up for us, hitherto, at least; But I am quaking for Middlesex & South Hants, in both of which the Tories are making desperate efforts to oust Hume & Palmerston. <2>

Stanley’s <3> speech is a dishonest one, I think. Can anything be more despicable than for a man of his parts to condescend to apply the Tory Catchwords, of DestructiveFactions opposition & so forth & to those who would remodel that Juggernaut the Irish Church, and refuse their confidence to Joseph [illegible] He has neither tact nor taste – that is clear.

Ever your’s [sic]
G. Poulett Scrope

We shall presume your dinner hour to be six or a quarter after

[envelope:]
Chippenham January fifteen 1835
W. F. Talbot Esqr.
Lacock Abbey
G Poulet Scrope


Notes:

1. Scrope had recently won the elections, and retained his seat at Strout. [See Doc. No: 03029].

2. Joseph Hume (1777–1855), Radical politician, sat for Middlesex from 1830 to 1837. Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), politician and British Prime Minister (1885–1858, 1859–1865); he was defeated at the general elections of December 1834.

3. Edward Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869), English statesman, entered Parliament as a Whig, joined Conservative opposition in 1835.

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