Volume of bound received letters 1800-1865

Volume includes letters from 1st Viscount Duncan. There is correspondence from 1830, regarding a candelabra which was presented by Prince Leopold to Hamilton as a token of his esteem, and later letters regarding crossings of the King and Queen of Belgium, including in 1841 for the christening of Victoria, Princess Royal, at which Leopold was a godfather. Also correspondence regarding the crossings of other royals including the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Cambridge. Some of the letters are in French.

Administrative / biographical background
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1731-1804) was a British admiral who defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown on 11 Oct 1797. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1790-1865) who had been married briefly to Princess Charlotte of Wales, 1816-1817, accepted the throne of Belgium in 1831, but retained close ties with Great Britain. The Duchess of Kent (1786-1861) was the mother of Queen Victoria. The Duchess of Cambridge (1797-1889) was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.