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  <dc:title>Letters to his son William, while his son was visiting Barbados</dc:title>
  <dc:description>including
 - 18 February: sees little of the Devonshires or [John] Wilkes now ...
 - 17 April: hopes he will not act precipitously in appointing an overseer at Turners Hall; fears for the security of his own parliamentary seat in Derby "as the Cavendishes will most likely not join me openly as formerly"
 - 29 April: "my heart bleeds for you and your health"; will sell the English estates to meet debts, if necessary
 - 1 July: reports attempts to get William a diplomatic posting
 - 4 October: "I cannot say much for I am afflicted with the nervous headach I had some years ago, &amp; terrible spirits. God grant you may never know them</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1771</dc:date>
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