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Letters, copy letters and pamphlets (1 December, 1796 – 30 May, 1827) between G. Canning and Sir John Sinclair. Includes:

1. Copy letter (1 December, 1796) to Lord Malmsbury from Sir John Sinclair.

2. Letter (31 December, 1822) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with printed committee reports ‘several plans for the relief of Agricultural distress; & especially recommending the making Silver a Standard of value.’

3. Letter (26 February, 1823) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed report ‘Sketches of Resolutions respecting the Agricultural Distress of the Country’.

4. Letter (12 October, 1823) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed leaflet ‘A General View of the Proportionate Increased rate of Population in the following 86 Counties or Districts in England, Wales and Scotland’.

5. Letter (12 September, 1824) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair with a newspaper clipping concerning the ‘Importance of Education …’ attached.

6. Two letters (18 September and 1 October, 1824) between G. Canning and Sir John Sinclair along with two copies of a printed pamphlet ‘On the Tendency of Ignorance and Want of Education, to Produce and Excessive Population, As Exemplified in the State of Ireland’.

7. Letter (11 October, 1824) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a newspaper clipping reporting on Canning’s attendance at a dinner for ‘Geo. Sinclair, ESQ. Younger of Ulster’.

8. Two letters (12 and 14 February, 1825) between G. Canning and Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ’On the Corn Laws; The Improvements of which they are Susceptible; …’.

9. Letter (2 July, 1825) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed bill for the pamphlet ‘An Analysis of the Statistical Account of Scotland’.

10. Printed page (c 1825). ‘Inverness-Shire Farming Society’

11. Letter (8 January, 1826) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘On the Means of Relieving the Present Pecuniary Embarrassments of the Country …’.

12. Letter (26 February, 1826) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a copy letter (1826) to Lord Liverpool from Sir John Sinclair.

13. Letter (6 May, 1826) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a ‘Copy of a Petition to be Presented to the House of Commons’.

14. Letter (18 August, 1826) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘On the Means of Giving ‘Public Relief’ to the Distressed Manufacturers …’.

15. Printed letter (15 November, 1826) from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘Address to The Farmers of Great Britain and Ireland’

16. Letter (17 January, 1827) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘On the Ability of the United Kingdom (with the aid of its Colonies) to supply itself with Grain’.

17. Letter (February, 1827) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘On the Advantages Derived from the Establishment of a Board of Agriculture’.

18. Letter (2 March, 1827) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a note of the same date ‘On Catholic Emancipation’.

19. ‘Extracts from Lord Byrons Manuscript Works, respecting his school Companion Mr George Sinclair.’ (25 April, 1827). ‘A faithful Copy’ by John Murray.

20. Letter (30 May, 1827) to G. Canning from Sir John Sinclair along with a printed pamphlet ‘On the Corn Laws of France, …’