BIB_ID
157641
Accession number
MA 22841
Creator
Elgin, Thomas Bruce, Earl of, 1766-1841.
Display Date
Dunfermline, Scotland, 1809 April 18.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 24.9 x 20.0 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks to "General Ross / Savile Row / London." Savile Row has been crossed through and "Portland place" written beneath it.
Summary
Asking for a reference on William Bunnell, "...whom I understand from Mr. Thomson of Northumberland, you had for some time in the management of your farm operations - You would oblige me very much by letting me know what his abilities as a farmer are, his capacity for keeping men & things in order and whether he is a person that will be pleasant in the constant daily intercourse one naturally has, when taking a very lively interest, as I do, in extensive farming operations I am carrying on - I look for a man who will not think himself above adopting advice & improvements - and who establish the neatness about him, which we look for in vain among our country people."
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