Letter from Samuel Flood Page, newly-appointed minister of St Peter's Chapel in Ramsey, to Viscount Melbourne seeking government assistance for struggling day and Sunday schools. The letter details the financial crisis facing the school building (£210 cost, only £100 raised, builder threatening to repossess) and highlights the Isle of Man's exclusion from Parliamentary education grants and Church Building Society funds. Contextualised by extensive editorial notes on Page's career, contemporary Manx press reports, and Treasury minute details for the 1833 education grant scheme.