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Language English Name Holyoake, George Jacob, freethinker and co-operator, 1817-1906 Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 42726

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Add MS 42726
Title:
LETTERS OF OR CONCERNING HARRIET MARTINEAU(1802-1876),author, addressed to George Jacob Holyoake, the rationalist; 1851-1877, n.d. Her own letters (thirteen) relate mainly to her activities as a writer. The writers of the other letters are her nieces Maria (f. 19) and Jane Martineau (f. 27) and Henry George Atkinson (ff. 29, 31); also included in the volume are an undated copy of one of Holyoake's replies (f. 15) and some newspaper cuttings about her, 1851 (?)-1877 (ff. 33-39). Part of one o...
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George Jacob Holyoake, reformer: Correspondence with H. Martineau: 1851-[1859?], n.d. Brenzett, Kent: Deeds and papers rel. to: 1448-1777.: fr. includes: ff. 1-18, 21-26 Harriet Martineau, writer and reformer: Correspondence with G. J. Holyoake: 1851-[1859?], n.d.f. 19 Maria Martineau, ni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1851-1877
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 52416

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CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS OF RICHARD COBDEN, M.P., (b. 1804, d. 1865) and his daughter, Emma Jane Catherine Cobden (b. 1851, d. 1949), wife (1892) of Thomas Fisher Unwin, publisher; 1852-1939. Supplement Add. MSS. 43647, 43678, 43807, 43808, 50748-50751, 59652 G. Presented by R. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq., and (f. 180b) P. D. Drury, Esq., R.E. Paper; ff. 183. Folio. 1852-1939. 1. ff. 1-11. Correspondence of, and relating to, Cobden; 1852-1863. Partly French. Mostly imperfect. 2. ff. 13-1...
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includes: ff. 1-4b Richard Cobden, statesman; d.1865: Letters of,: 1852-1859: Imperf. and fragm.f. 6 John Brown, of Osawatomie; opponent of slavery: Letter to his wife, Mary, and their children,: 1859: Copy.ff. 8-10 Captain G. Noirtin, 1st Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique: Correspondence w...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1852-1939
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 89413

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Three cyclostyled pamphlets relating to the Leicester editions of the 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam
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Comprises: An octogenerian's recreation in January 1899. Being 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ... (Leicester: W H Holyoake, 1899). George Jacob Holyoake Omar Khayyam. Strange story of the Macmillans and a Leicester bookseller. (Leicester: Free Thought Book Store, [1899]) George Jacob Holyoake Oma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1899
Extent:
3 items