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SD1933.  Reuben Browning to William Ewart Gladstone

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 22, 274.

Old Charlton Kent

2 June 1856

Sir

In conformity with the intention which I expressed in my last communication, I beg leave to hand you a Note upon the 2½ PCt Annuities, [1] shewing that on account of the State of the Market, it neither would be practicable nor judicious at the present moment to employ them in any new Loan.

If I may be permitted to solicit your opinion as to the correctness of my views in this paper, I should consider any observations you might think proper to make upon them, as a mark of condescension on your part which would have its merited place in the recollection of

Sir

Your very obedt Servt

R Browning

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: British Library.

1. Preserved with this letter is a “Note on the 2½ PCt Annuities”, four pages, dated London 31 May 1856.

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