| Description | Letters to Algernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore, relating to his political and court functions as Conservative chief whip in the House of Lords and Lord in Waiting, including:
- from various peers concerning their addresses, their absences from the House, and pairing;
- from several peers concerning their willingness to serve on Royal Commissions;
- from Lord Erskine, concerning his intention of joining the Conservative benches;
- from several Scottish representative peers, concerning the proposal to elect a Liberal among Scotland's representative peers;
- from Lord Hawarden, concerning boycotting and the Land League in Ireland;
- from various peers, concerning a general meeting of Conservative peers called for 18 February 1886;
- from Lord Salisbury, telling Lord Kintore to remove the whip from Lord Thurlow's Sunday motion;
- from several peers, requesting the position of chairman of House of Lords committees and concerning elections to the post;
- from Lord Limerick, requesting a government attendance whip on the Labourers (Ireland) act amendment bill;
- from the Lord Chamberlain, intimating the Queen's wishes in respect of precedence in a ceremonial procession; and
- from various peers in reply to an appeal for donations to the Carlton Club general election fund 1886, including a reply from Lord Londonderry declining to contribute as the fund should be subscribed by "those who have been noticed by the Conservative party since they have been in office, rather than those who have been completely ignored". |