| Description | Letters to Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, relating to his function as Conservative chief whip in the House of Lords, including:
- letters from various peers to the Earl of Lathom, the previous chief whip, in reply to an appeal for donations to the Carlton Club election fund 1885;
- correspondence from Lord Lathom, offering Lord Kintore the post as whip in the House of Lords;
- letter from Lord Salisbury, proposing to put forward Lord Kintore's name to the Queen as a Lord in Waiting;
- from various peers, in response to a request for election fund donations;
- from Lord Kincoll, concerning the unavailability of a Conservative candidate for Montrose Burghs;
- from several peers, explaining absences from the House f Lords and from Royal Commissions; and
- from Lords Southesk and Elphinstone, concerning the possibility of electing a Liberal among the Scottish representative peers in 1885.
Also accounts of the Carlton Club election fund 1885 |