Does Mint provide official housing for Master? If not, JH's annual housing allowance of £300 should be extra, and not deducted from JH's salary of £1500. Thanks for JH's hints on responding to Benedetto Pistrucci.
Does Mint provide official housing for Master? If not, JH's annual housing allowance of £300 should be extra, and not deducted from JH's salary of £1500. Thanks for JH's hints on responding to Benedetto Pistrucci.
Asks JH to review a document. HH will look for errors in other copy of it.
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Does not wish to become a Vice-Patron of the College of Preceptors.
Has reconsidered and dismissed JH's previous plan. Will explain reason to [?] in person later today. Please change wording in document regarding Master's salary.
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Thanks JH for note of recommendation for his continued candidacy to the R.S.L.
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In [Henry] Rich's absence, JH does not know how to process claims by apprentice moneyers F. R. Brande and Henry Finch. Ask for advice from Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood]. Henry Bingley's concern for apprenticeship of Bingley's son.
Meeting of Cambridge University Commissioners is again postponed. Dean of Ely [George Peacock] unable to attend.
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Returns letters of Jasper Atkinson. Issue of moneyers appears to have been closed by decision of lords of Treasury on 8 July 1851. Sees no reason to reconsider it. [JH Note on verso: Abstract of two letters from Jasper Atkinson to Sir John Russell, prime minister, requesting compensation to moneyers for lost income at Mint.]
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
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Encloses son Willy's school report; adds some news items of family and friends.
Sending the first fruits of the enterprise of Dr. J. L. Krapf.
Announces meeting of R.S.L. council on 11 March.