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Add. MS c/93/29 · Item · 7 Jun 1887
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Asks where can be found a 'good and intelligible statement of the bimetallist's view. Mentions that his father [Sir Isaac Bell] was talking to Mr Henry G[renfell] on the subject [of bimetallism].

Bell, Sir Thomas Hugh (1844-1931), 2nd Baronet Bell of Rounton Grange, industrialist
HOUG/E/M/13/5 · Item · 20 Sept. 1875
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton

Taplow Court, Maidenhead. - Recommends Mr Macdonald as Engineer to the Lancs & Yorks Railway; his wife is Grenfell's cousin and daughter of an adventurer who first fought in Paris in 1830; his experiences in Sacramento, Gibraltar and the River Plate; was condemned to death for attempting to burn Chicago during the American Civil War; sent instead to the 'dry Tortugas' whence he escaped in an open boat and was drowned; 'Is this not a good reason for making his son in law your engineer?'.