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D517 - Miller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor - [16th-20th cent]
- F - Family papers - [early 16th cent]-1982
  - BOX - Box-listed family papers - 17th-20th cent
    - 9 - Box 9 - Family papers and correspondence - 1629-1908
      - Item - Items

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D517/BOX/9/Item/83
Former Reference	D517/BOX/9/Item/83
Title	Letter from Maria [Phipps, née Miller Mundy (1842-1902), wife of diplomat Constantine Phipps], St Petersburg, Russia, to her mother, Jane Mundy [née Hindmarsh].
Date	[1867]
Description	Regarding travelling including investiture party for the new ambassador, Lord Vane [George Henry Robert Charles Vane-Tempest, fifth marquess of Londonderry (1821-1884), British Ambassador to Russia from 1867 to 1871]. Reports being seated between Vane and Lord Albert Gower. The investiture went better than she expected “from a knowledge of Lord Vane’s peculiarities, not the least of wh[ich] is a tendency to drink … small but perpetual doses of a liquid called B. V. [a vodka cocktail]”
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Miller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor
Format	Document
Term	Letters (documents)

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