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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)JCLAdd/551
TitleAutograph 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
Extent1 item
Date[late 1870s]
DescriptionAlthough 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 StatusOpen

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