Robert Bald letter

Address: Edinburgh. To Joseph Hume MP. Excuses his silence 'but ... I have been uncommonly pressed with mineral surveying and reporting thereon arising in a great degree from the conflicting elements which arise betwixt master and servant. Coals rise in price to an exorbitant rate, and the great manufacturing interests of Glasgow & chief consumers of coal there agreed to have the districts surveyed as to the means of supplying the City with abundance of coal at a moderate rate, and to lay rail ways into the coals fields which were the best'. He encloses "two copies of the treatise I wrote regarding the coal trade of Scotland and the slavish system of bearing coals by women. I have been attacked and run down for doing so: this I care nothing about ...'.
Autograph, with signature.

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This document is inserted in R Bald 'View of the Coal Trade' (1812 imprint) (presentation copy to J Hume) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1808. To request the document, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letter AL243.

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