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[ Prisons; Colonies inc. Australia, Canada, West Indies etc.] [Printed Parliamentary] Circular. MS title "Prisons" (in Frederick Peel's hand). Signed at end "Grey"

Author: 
[ Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey, sometime Colonial Secretary (from 1846) ]
Publication details: 
"Downing Street, 13th March 1848"
£500.00

Printed in italics, 14pp., folio (also [paginated in MS 133-146, extracted from a volume of Parliamentary Circulars with the ownership signature "Frederick Peel", Member of Parliament (from Feb. 1849), dated 1839-1851), very good condition. The context makes it plain that this Circular was sent to all Colonial Governors, a gap in the text indicating where the name of a specific Governor would appear in MS.

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[ Document Signed; Inspector of Convicts ] (Exchequer) Document Signed by H. Petty, Althorp, unidentified, C W Williams Wynn approving a payment to Aaron Graham. Inspector of Convicts

Author: 
[ Lord Henry Petty (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Viscount Althorp (later 3rd Earl Spencer), Charles Watkins Williams Wynn (Under Secretary of State Home Dept, and another ]
Publication details: 
5 November 1806.
£120.00

One page, folio, left edge trimmed with small loss of text (first letters of 'Aaron' in name 'Aaron Graham' and three other words), some small closed tears, fold mark, good condition. "Order is taken this 5th Day of November 1806 [...] that you deliver & pay of such His Majesty's Treasure as remains in your charge unto Aaron Graham Esq. Inspector of Convicts or to his Assigns the sum of Eighty seven Poaunds and ten Shillings [...]" Signed "CW Williams Wynn", counter-signed "H.Petty | Althorp | {Copeland?]".

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