Arthur Mills Correspondence 1840-1897

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Arthur Mills Correspondence 1840-1897

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/mills_a.htm

Papers of the Conservative member of Parliament representing Exeter, a member of the London School Board, and a member of the Board of Directors of the London and South Western Railway. Incoming correspondence (1840-1897) from members of both houses of Parliment, members of the Grillion Club, and churchmen. Subjects include government, politics and the church, emigration and immigration, colonies and their governments, the Suez Canal, theological and ecclesiastical matters, schools, and membership of the Grillion Club.

4 v. (SC)

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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