GISBORNE

(1789-1862, Chairman of the Midland Railway, M.P. for Leicester 1848-1852), telling him that it is Electioneering first, and then culverting. Kidd[erminste]r will be about... Septr. 3rd & 4th. It will be close, but looks well for me. The steam is up... the will of the customers is doing the work of bribery with the publicans in a constituency of which more than ¼th are publicans & beer house keepers, he has no doubt you will get well thro' the Midland meeting, he has been investing in Railways, I think the time is come... Midlands, Lancashire & Yorkshire, & Birmingham and Dudley, 3 sides small 8vo., Y[oxall] L[odge], Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, 22nd August