Catalogue Entry: MINT00911
Letter to an unknown recipient concerning Newton's prospects of a post at the Mint or elsewhere
Custodial History
Withdrawn from the Sotheby sale and retained by Lymington, who presumbably presented or permanently loaned it to the Hampshire Record Office.
Sotheby Lot
SL200Contents
Not addressed to Newton but evidently forwarded to him by someone who was trying to obtain preferment for him. The letter mentions among other 'places' those of master, warden, and comptroller of the Mint: 'very good places and they [the occupants] make them as good as they please themselves'.
