Autograph Collection.- Social Reformers c. 19th century

Selection of letters and cards by various British social reformers, including: Harriet Sarah Loyd-Lindsay, Baroness Wantage (to Mrs Payne Gallwey "I shall be very pleased to send some garden produce to the Fleet - one feels more especially for the Trawlers - whose work is little know or appreciated. I shall be most of this week in London. Perhaps you will kindly tell my gardener - W. Harris how they should be addressed & whether sent to your home or where", 3 October n.y.); Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury ("It will certainly give me great pleasure to support any application to the Lord Chancellor on your behalf", 3 December 1854, original mailing envelope affixed to last page); Robert Egerton (to the Secretary of the Poor Law Commission, "I am unwilling to add to the labours of the P. Law Commissioners the perusal of a single letter, but the one I enclose appears to me to contain some statements with respect to the important subject of blindness among the Poor & the means of its preventions, which make it worthy of attention. I believe that Henshaw's Blind Asylum is managed in a manner which does much credit to its officers medical & other & which prima facie gives weight to any statement from that quarter", 19 March 1842); Henry Brougham (to Rev. D. Davies, "I am more than half ashamed to ask you once more to help me in a matter I am much bent upon - namely a Tancred Studentship for the son of an old and valued friend of mine at the Bar, and one of the ablest and most accomplished men I know, Mr Du Bois", 15 October 1838); Mary Carpenter (to Mr Stephen Cox, "Sir C. Adderley's motion would, if carried, do immense harm, for the reasons assigned in the enclosed. I trust that you will consider the matter, and do all in your power to oppose him", 7 May 1870), and Mary Clifford (note to Mrs Brown, saying she would like very much to attend her meeting, 21 January n.y.); v.s. (6)

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