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Description of the funeral of George IV

Downing Street. - Supports Milnes' application for an increase in Pontefract schoomaster's allowance, but hesitates to refer request to the Prince Regent at present as Duchy property represents the King's private estate rather than public revenue; will make recommendation in the event of the King's recovery, or at a later date if the Regency is extended.

Album containing material connected with the Milnes familty to 1831: in particular the brief parliamentary career of Houghton's father Robert Pemberton Milnes. Other reports concern national and historic events, such as the deaths of George III and George IV.

MS note in hand of G. M. Trevelyan below the letter: 'T. B. M to his sister Hannah. The passage on the third side about their sorrow for G[eorge] IV is, I fear, ironical...'