From Lord Palmerston   16 March 1826

My dear Sir

I have taken the liberty of suggesting some trifling verbal alterations in the enclosed draught of advertisement. I propose to substitute "lately resorted to" for the words as they stood, for I really doubt whether in my contest any onlooker received anything on account of travelling expenses; we certainly engaged some of the Stages from London and a certain number of Post Horses at each place between Cambridge & London but in many cases I believe the voters paid, each for this part of their journey, & were meant to do so in all cases. The London Committee have only given tickets which intitled the bearers to admission into the coaches or to the hire of the Horses so secured --- I have certainly a vague recollection that in one or two particular cases some little assistance was given to persons from distant parts of the country but I doubt whether these cases even exceeded the dual & got into the plural number.

My dear Sir

Yrs sincerely

Palmerston