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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].

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?'.