Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/E/B/7/21
Title
Letter from Richard Moxon to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 25 Aug 1872 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2ff
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Repository
Archival history
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
election result; Major Waterhouse spent nearly £300 on tea parties to bribe cottagers; Liberals now united; Lord Pollington cut a miserable figure; harvest; Masonic Lodge; [postscript]: 20% of the Knottingley voters were illiterate: Pontefract [embossed with Pontefract town seal]