From Lord Palmerston 3 June 1826

I have the honour to inform you that the Election for the University of Cambridge will be begun on Tuesday the 13th inst., and that the Poll will be kept open on Wednesday the 14th, and on Thursday the 15th.

I cannot make this communication without availing myself of the opportunity of again requesting you to accept my thanks for the obliging & flattering support which you have expressed your intention of affording me. I am fully sensible how much your presence at Cambridge may interfere with your other engagements; yet as I feel that my prospect of success must depend entirely on the active support of my friends; as the contest will, beyond doubt, be of extreme severity, and the result will, in all probability, be determined by a very few votes, I trust you will allow me most ernestly to solicit your assistance at the Poll; and that you will permit me to say how excessively important it will be to me, to have the advantage of your presence at Cambridge on one of the above mentioned days.

I have the honour to be

your very obedient

Faithful Servant

Palmerston