Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/E/M/13/66
Title
Letter from Christopher Musgrave to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 4 Feb. 1876 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
4 ff., with enclosure, 2 ff.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Poultry Chambers, Poultry, E.C. (on printed notepaper: Albert Buildings, Mansion House, E.C.). - Letting property for Major Wieland; salary is £1 a week plus commission; hopes to manage the whole City operation; reduced circumstances have forced him to borrow clothes; encloses examples of rents to show the type of people he meets and the importance of maintaining a respectable appearance; requests £5. Enclosed: table of rents for Nos 9-11 Poultry and No 23 Mansion House Street.