| Description | Letter from Edgar Bowring to General Charles Grey regarding the roads to be finished by contractors in the agreed time and that Mr Jackson had already been paid £6,600. He also states that a City movement for a museum had presently failed and that there was still a question as to the proposed collection to be sent to Hull Museum. He also mentions William Cubitt's illness and encloses a letter from the 'King of Siam' to his father Sir J. Bowring (which has been retained in the Royal Archives). |