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Add. MS c/52/180
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Richard Jones to William Whewell
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- 8 Dec. 1854 (Creation)
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3 pp.
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9 York Street, St. James's Sq. - The India House have granted RJ a pension of 400 pounds a year from Christmas. He would have got 460 but someone opposed the measure on the grounds that he was already 'so well off and on their resisting threatened all sorts of hostile and combative measures [-] my friends (that is all but him) thought it better to avoid noise and war - and I think they were quite right'.