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His Grace, The Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal, to
The Rt Hon. The Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll and Lord Privy Seal, wrote on 1 September 1863 from his family seat at fuverary
Castle, Argyllshire, to the Prime Minister in Downing Street, London. Clearly of importance and private, the envelope
was marked accordingly, and also to be forwarded (if Viscount Palmerston was not in London). The envelope was
sent double rate at 2d, due to· weight, and has despatch and arrival marks for fuverary and London on the reverse .

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The 8th Duke of Argyll was a Scottish peer and Li~eral politician, as well as a writer on science, religion, and the
politics of the 19th century. He was married three times, witl1 six sons and seven daughters with his first wife, the Lady
Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, eldest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland. He became father-in-law to H.R.H. Princess
Louise with her marriage to his eldest son, John, Mar9uess of Lome. ·

Viscount Palmerston, usually known as Lord Palmerston, is remembered for his light-hearted approach to government.
He is once said to have claimed of a particularly intractable problem relating to Schleswig-Holstein, that only three
people had ever understood the problem: one was Prince Albert, who was dead; the second was a Gem1an professor,
who had gone insane; and the third was himself, who had forgotten it.