Identity area
Reference code
HOUG/E/B/7/21
Title
Letter from Richard Moxon to Lord Houghton
Date(s)
- 25 Aug 1872 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 ff.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Pontefract [embossed with Pontefract town seal]. - 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.