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1. Add MS 43383-43392

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BRIGHT PAPERS. BRIGHT PAPERS: a selection from the correspondence, official and private, and other papers of John Bright, M.P. (b. 1811, d. 1889), full details of whose career will be found in the Life by G. M. Trevelyan, 1913. Cf. also Brit. Mus. Quart., vii, 1932- 1933, PP. 119- 121. Ten volumes. Folio (unless otherwise stated). The names of the writers are given in the Index to this Catalogue. Presented jointly by John Arthington Bright, Esq., and his sister, Mrs Hester Elizabeth Darbish...
Scope & Content:
John Bright, PC; MP: Correspondence and papers: 1841-1888.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
[1841-1925]
Extent:
10 items

2. Add MS 43383-43384

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vols. I, II (ff. 305, 323). Original letters from John Bright to Richard Cobden, the economist. For the originals of Cobden's letters to Bright see the Cobden Papers, Vols. III-VI (See Add. MSS. 43649-43652). Folio and quarto.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1841-1864]
Extent:
2 items

3. Add MS 43391

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Correspondence of John Bright with citizens of the United States of America
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1887
Extent:
Manuscripts, ff. 392

4. Add MS 43386

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. IV (ff. 395). Letters to Bright from the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P.; 1846-1887. Charles Pelham Villiers, PC; MP: Letters to J. Bright: 1846-1887. includes: f. 45 Wolverhampton, Staffordshire: Letter from C. P. Villiers, M.P., to his constituents: 1846.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1887
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 43390

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. VIII (ff. 286). Letters from.- (1) John Bigelow, U.S. Minister in Paris; 1861-1868. ff. 1-49b. (2) Edward Lillie Pierce, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Massachusetts; 1853-1887. ff. 50-122. (3) Charles Sumner, the American statesman; 1857-1872. ff. 123-286.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1887
Extent:
Manuscript, ff. 286

6. Add MS 43388

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. VI (ff. 256). (1) Letters from Sir William George Granville Venables Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary; 1868-1883. ff. 1-23b. (2) Letters from Sir Charles Wood, 3rd Bart., 1st Viscount Halifax 1866; 1850-1878. ff. 24-40. (3) Correspondence with Thomas Milner-Gibson, Presi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1847-1883
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 43392

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. 193). Miscellanea, viz:- (1) Notes and extracts for use in speeches, viz:(a) At Manchester; 1849-1856. ff. 1-10;-(b) At Birmingham; 1861-1885. ff. 11-33;- (c) On Ireland; 1849-1869. ff. 33-57;-(d) Electoral Reform; 1858-1875. ff. 58-71b;-(e) The Church of England; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-1885
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 43387

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 259). Letters from:- (1) Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville; 1860-1885. ff. 1-132. (2) George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon; 1850- 1869. ff. 133-178. (3) Joseph Chamberlain; 1875-1888. ff. 179-219. (4) Spencer Compton Cavendi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1888
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 43385

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BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 375). Correspondence of Bright with William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister, followed (ff. 361-375) by letters, 1853-1886, from the latter's wife, Catherine; 1854-1887. This correspondence supplements that in the Gladstone Papers, Vols. XXVII, XXVIII (Add. MSS. 44112...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1887
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 43389

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Scope & Content:
BRIGHT PAPERS. Vol. VII (ff. 383). General correspondence of John Bright, 1845-1887; followed (ff. 378-383) by letters to his son John Albert (1904) and daughter-in-law (1925). includes: ff. 1-5 Harriet Martineau, writer and reformer: Letters to J. Bright: 1845-1846.ff. 6-38b passim George...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1845-1925
Extent:
1 item