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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)JCLAdd/7-8
TitleLetters from Joseph Chamberlain to [Francis] Schnadhorst (1840-1900, Secretary of the National Liberal Federation), 8 March 1880, 1 April 1881
Extent2 items
Date1880-1881
DescriptionThese comprise of two letters, one from the House of Commons Library, and one from Highbury, Moor Green, Birmingham.

He writes that the dissolution of Parliament has been announced by the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer...for Easter writs will be issued on the 23 March' and 'the election must take place, in Boroughs, before 1st April' (8 March 1880). He also informs Schnadhorst of his experiences at recent Party meetings in Birmingham, and of the correspondence he has received from Mr [John] Bright [1811-1889, orator and statesman] (1 April 1881)
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