Letter from Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness to Mr. Mitchell, written from Whitehall and dated 14 March 1760
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Add MS 6818, fol.98, ‘Letter from the Earl of Holderness to Mr. Mitchell. (Separate and Most Secret). Communication made by the Prussian Minister relative to the negotiation opened at Hamburg, tending to a pacification between the King of Prussia and the Czarina [Elizabeth]; also relative to an opening for a general pacification, in a letter of M. Voltaire to the King of Prussia. (In cypher).’
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Letter from Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness to Mr. Mitchell, written from Whitehall and dated 14 March 1760
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A letter from the Earl of Holderness to Mr. Mitchell, written from Whitehall in cypher and dated 14 March 1760.
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Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness begins by discussing a recent communication made by the Prussian Minister regarding the negotiation recently opened at Hamburg. This negotiation aimed at iniciating peace between Frederick II of Prussia and Czarina Elizaveta Petrovna of Russia. Darcy also makes note of discussions of this general pacification in a letter from Voltaire to Frederick II of Prussia.
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Purchased as part of the Mitchell Papers in 1810 for £400.
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