Catalogue description Folios 75-76. Letter from Robert Philips, The Park near Manchester. Philips asks for...

Folios 75-76. Letter from Robert Philips, The Park near Manchester. Philips asks for information on the daily diet prescribed for newly created poor law houses and whether such diets are prescribed by the guardians or managers of each workhouse. His enquiry arises from comments made at a Conservative meeting recently held and reported on in the Manchester Courier. Philips suggests statements made by the chairman of the meeting were false and need to be contradicted. The chairman corrected an inaccuracy related to the diet received by a mother with a new born infant (details of diet given). The chairman had not contradicted the mistaken statement made in the newspaper. Philips was anxious that other poor houses in the area were not regarded as having a superior diet. If he received details he would see they were published in the local press. He also intended to send details to Mark Philips MP (his son). The letter includes an extract from the Manchester Courier, 13 January 1838.