Letter and enclosure from Henry Fox to William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire

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Concerns measures against an outbreak of a contagious distemper in Algiers thought to be the plague. The letter encloses extracts from two letters from Mr. Aspinwall, Consul in Algiers, 5 and 22 February 1756. Written from Whitehall. Signed: "H Fox".

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