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HOUG/A/B/4/19
Title
Letter from John Oldroyd Greaves to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 31 Jan. 1873 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet, with enclosure, also 1 folded sheet.
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Wakefield. With enclosure: letter, 30 Jan. 1873, from Archibald Briggs, Stanley Hall, Wakefield, to John Oldroyd Greaves, declining the offer of a lease of Lord Houghton's Haigh Moor coal. Greaves assures Houghton that he has other applicants, and thinks he 'can make satisfactory arrangements with the gentlemen I mentioned from Dewsbury and Batley'.