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GB. COVERS & POSTAL HISTORY 1789 (5 Oct) letter headed "General Post Office" from the Secretary of the Post Office, Anthony Todd, to the Postmaster General, Lord Walsingham, includes "My Lord I am very much obliged to your Lordship for your letter of yesterday, and likewise for what you say of me to honest Braithwaite, and as I must desire to hold you to your kind promise of dining here on Wednesday. I cannot consent to the chop house dinner and have wrote Lord Westmorland accordingly". From the Herbert Joyce (third secretary, Post Office) family archive, several pages of background information accompany. Lot 1432 (M) [c]
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