Item 13 - Letter from Laurence Eliot to the Countess of Portsmouth about the the Mastership, 1760

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MCCA/MCAD/1/1/13

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Letter from Laurence Eliot to the Countess of Portsmouth about the the Mastership, 1760

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  • 16 June 1760 (Creation)

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Letter from Eliot Laurence [the Fellows' preferred candidate to the Mastership] to the Countess of Portsmouth [Visitor].

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Madam,

The Fellows of magdalen College presuming that your Ladyship may probably be unacquainted with the form of a nomination to the Mastership have desired me to transmit to your Ladyship the enclosed copy, which is transcribed from Lord Effingham's nomination & is to be wrote upon a sheet of stamp paper. The Society in general beg leave to return their sincerest acknowledgements to your Ladyship for the favourable regard you was pleased to express for them & I am more particularly obliged to request your Ladyship's acceptance of my most humble thanks for the great kindness & civilities you showed me when I had the honour of waiting upon your ladyship last week. The Society present their most dutiful respects to your Ladyship & beg that you will be pleased to order your Steward to et m know as soon as you have nominated a Master of this College, tht we may be in readiness to receive & to pay all proper respect to the Gentleman you shall please to appoint. I have the honour to be,

Madam,
Your Ladyship's most obliged & most obedient humble servant,
L. Eliot

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