A letter from Richard Dawson (Governor of the Isle of Man) to a senior government official (addressed as 'My Lord') requesting permission to issue copper coinage to alleviate a shortage of small change affecting trade, particularly the herring fishery. The letter outlines the historical distinction between Manx and English copper currency, the 1758 date of the last coinage, and proposes a three-hundred-pound issue of pence and one-hundred-fifty-pound issue of half-pence bearing the King's head and the Island's arms.