Correspondence to the 9th Earl on party business in the House of Lords 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 1885