From Lord Palmerston 2 June 1826

My dear Sir

I send you more ascertained votes. We had a very full meeting of the Committee yesterday & gave several of our friends a number of names of persons to be attacked. We do not as yet hear of so many absentees as I expected; several of those whom we reckoned upon as defaulters wll be able to come. The Clives, Sir Watkin Charles Grant Wm Lamb Ld. Brecknock & several Lawyers, are among these; They will all come

Ld Normanby too is returned from abroad & Ld Burghish not gone & both will vote the first a plumper. Ld. Burghish also wishes for rooms at Trinity but cannot tell on what day. I should be glad to have rooms for Ld Clive & his brother at St Johns. They will be with us early in Weddy morning

Our Lawyers think it of great importance to them to have the Poll open on Monday as they could come down on Sunday, vote Monday & go back again, & this would be more convenient to them than Thursday which the the only other day they would have free; This would be advantageous to Copley as well as to me and a little so to Goulburn but against the interest of Bankes. Bankes came here yesterday very angry at our having as he was informed got Theed to turn plumper from having been split between Bankes & me, but I found a reference to my papers that early in this canvass Theed was reported as a vote for me unless some Whig candidate started and he has since been given me as a plumper by Ld Milton.

My dear Sir

Yrs sincerely

Palmerston

Whatever is done about opening the poll on Monday we must have it open Tuesday Weddy & Thursday It will be highly important to us to have Thursday a Polling Day