[The 5th Duke of Newcastle, as Colonial Secretary.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Newcastle'), regarding the 'system of promotion in the Colonial Service', in reply to the recommendation by Liberal MP and banker Thomson Hankey that he employ 'Mr Price'.

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. Newcastle has already been informed of Price's wish to be placed in the Colonial Office by 'the Duke of Roxburghe and others, whose interest in his wefare, would have great weight with me, if I felt that I could consistently with the present claims upon me, hold out any hope of complying with Mr. Price's request'. He is 'not in a position to say what arrangements' he intends to make 'in consequence of the death of Captain Booth', as he is 'very desirous of extending, as far as possible, a system of promotion in the Colonial Service', and has to consider 'many who have many years of residence in unhealthy climate to found their appeals upon'. From the Hankey banking archive.