BIB_ID
311529
Accession number
MA 429.39
Creator
Peel, Robert, 1788-1850.
Display Date
1826 Apr. 25.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Marked "Private."
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Whitehall.
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Written from Whitehall.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Responding that "any attempt by legislative Enactment in respect to the rate of wages to be allowed by the Master Manufacturer to the workmen employed by him would be unavailing as well as highly objectionable in principle," but regretting to hear about the distress of the working class in Lancashire.
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