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SD1935.  Reuben Browning to William Ewart Gladstone

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

Old Charlton Kent

14 June 1856

Sir

In your last letter to me which I beg to acknowledge, you have stated that the 2½ PCt Stock as to their application to public utility, might here after become a subject of interest. I have thought upon this matter, and beg to enclose a Note [1] of a few preliminary ideas respecting it, which I request you will please accept from

Sir

Your very obedt Servt

R Browning

The

Rt Honble

W E Gladstone M.P.

&c &c &c

Publication: None traced.

Manuscript: British Library.

1. Preserved with this letter is a “Note on the 2½ PCt Annuities”, six pages, dated 14 June 1856.

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