BIB_ID
128797
Accession number
MA 9342
Creator
Childers, Hugh C. E. (Hugh Culling Eardley), 1827-1896.
Display Date
1885 January 20.
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Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1983.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.7 x 12 cm
Notes
On stationery with the blind embossed seal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the following address: "Treasury Chambers, / Whitehall, S.W." Childers served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1882 to 1885.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1983.
Summary
Saying that his wife, Katherine Gilbert Childers, sent him Legge's letter of the 11th, but he does not think he can help Mr. Raper (possibly Robert George Raper of Chichester): "I scarcely know him; and Honors for Mayors are hardly matters within the province of the Chancellor of the Exchequer"; recommending, "if Mr. Raper has a friend in Sir Charles Dilke, who is officially concerned with Local administration," that he approach Dilke instead.
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