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Reference NumberP/MIS/293
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TitleLetter to John Lewis Ricardo from Charles Pelham Villiers
Date(s)c.1846
DescriptionLetter to John Lewis Ricardo from Charles Pelham Villiers, dated 20 Apr, from 52 Regent Street, on Reform Club notepaper; says he shall be in town tomorrow and in Chancery Lane at 2; states that he was "asked to take the chair at Brentford but have heard nothing since...I trust I am let off"; and that "I have got an invitation just now from ye Tower Hamlets on ye 25? to meet Cobden. It is too great a wear and tear. I shall not go I think..."
Extent1 document
CategoryCorrespondence
FormatManuscript
AdminHistoryVilliers, Ricardo and Cobden were all free traders. The letter may date from the years preceding the abolition of the corn laws in 1846. Ricardo died in 1862. Villiers died in 1898.
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