CHESTERFIELD PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE; 4TH EARL OF Autograph L

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CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE; 4TH EARL OF. Autograph Letter Signed, "Chesterfield," as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to "My Lord" [William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire?], thanking him for his services and acknowledging receipt of the "Navy Bill." 1 1/2 pages, 4to, written on a folded sheet; remnants of prior mounting to terminal page along center vertical fold, horizontal folds. (MRS) London, 6 July 1745

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"I have generally thought that when nothing was to be said, the best way was to say nothing; and indeed what can I say to your Lordship, for being my Steward, my Bailiff, my Woodsman? . . . I will therefore only thank your Lordship very heartily for the trouble you take for me . . . . Mr. Drummond who has shown me your Lordship's letter with the inclos'd Navy Bill, has not yet made out the account, but I know that I find mine in your Lordship's care, and that I never had such a Steward before. . . ."