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Title

Letter from Lord Elgin to his wife. 

Online
 (6)

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

8 September [1854]

Place

[Quebec]

Place of creation

Québec (Province)

Extent

pages 680-689
Inventory no.: 4842

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Possibility of a Ministerial crisis. Attacks on Lord Elgin including the accusation that his illness was a sham. Thomas Edmund Campbell to preside over agricultural meeting at Quebec. Miss Murray attends the House of Assembly and listens to the debates for nine hours. Ministerial changes. Resignation of Francis Hincks. Sir Allen McNab ascertains whether he can make an administration. This letter is incomplete.

Conditions of access

Textual records
90: Open
Volume
18 File number 7
90: Open
Archival reference no.

Finding aid no.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

4030124