Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The manuscripts were inherited by Mr Richard Hobbs from his maternal grandmother, Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, daughter of the 16th Earl of Derby and wife of General Hon. Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy, second son of the 2nd Earl of Cranbrook. The largest and most important group of papers is the correspondence of the 16th Earl of Derby as Governor-General of Canada, and especially the letters from the Canadian Premier, Sir John Macdonald. There are also earlier letters from the 16th Earl...