Correspondence, 1837

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File MS 532

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Correspondents include: P. Mahoney, R.B. Adderley, S. Crawley, Lord Palmerston, H. Headly, Captain Dundas, Colonel Fox, Colonel Fitzgibbon, T.A. Curtis, William Ashley, E. Eyre, Viscount Canterbury, Sir Henry Wheatley, G.A. Hamilton, Captain Townley, Baron Stockman, Sir Thomas Evans, Earl of Mulgrave, E.J. Stanley, Lord Melbourne, Reverend Musgrave and T.A. Curtis.

Subjects include: Cambridge University, hiring of labourers, death of King William IV, officers' pensions, duties as Chancellor of the Exchequer, impact of Irish and Scottish distilleries on English market, British economy, British and Irish politics, the South Sea Company, donations, concerns over cost of expeditions, role as Charirman of the Joint Stock Bank Committee, progress of New South Wales colony.

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