From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[5 April 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0690; Reel 1089
Summary:
Explains to Treasury why copper needed for coinage is supplied by private contract, rather than by public competition, following 1849 transfer of copper manufacturing from Boulton & Watt in Soho to Ralph Heaton & Sons in Birmingham.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project