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Reference code
HOUG/E/B/6/25
Title
Letter from Richard Heywood Jones to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 31 Jan 1864 (Creation)
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4 ff.
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Scope and content
On embossed notepaper, Badsworth Hall, Pontefract. - Objecting to local petition to discontinue Sunday post to Pontefract; principal groups of signatories; false piety; petition alleged to have originated with Post Office clerks who dislike early rising; successful ban would set a dangerous precedent; petitioners should have doors marked with holy symbols to deter profane intrusions by postmen.