Level | Item |
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | JCLAdd/551 |
Title | Autograph notes offering comments, largely of a legal or factual nature, to the unidentified author of several pages of a text (possibly of a speech or report) relating to land ownership and the position of tenant farmers, and to numbers of paupers in receipt of poor relief. 2 pp |
Extent | 1 item |
Date | [late 1870s] |
Description | Although undated, the notes make reference to Chamberlain's recent purchase of land from two sets of trustees for a house near Birmingham [Highbury Hall, into which he moved in 1880]; and to the Agricultural Holdings Act 'passed by the present Government'
There is a manuscript note on this document, made by C. Duignan, identifying the handwriting as being that of Joseph Chamberlain |
Access Status | Open |