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032-002001927

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Title:

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. 13-179b. Correspondence and papers of Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin, mostly relating to her political activities, including her membership of the London County Council and her support for women's suffrage; 1870-1939. At f. 13 is a letter of James Thorold Rogers to her sister, Kate, wife of Richard Charles Fisher of Midhurst, 1870, and at f. 26 is a letter of Col. George Salis Schwabe, M.P., to her sister, Ellen Millicent Ashburner, wife (1885) of Walter Richard Sickert, R.A., 1878.

3. f. 180b. Letter of Arthur Melanchthon Perkins, Congregational minister, to Paul Dalou Drury, R.E., partly relating to the donation of the Cobden Papers to the British Museum; 1935. Photocopy.

Scope & Content:

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 with R. Cobden,: 1861: Fr.
ff. 8-10 Richard Cobden, statesman; d.1865: Correspondence with Capt. G. Noirtin,: 1861: Fr.
f. 11 Richard Cobden, statesman; d.1865: Letter rel. to,: 1863.
f. 11 Frederic Harrison, President, English Positivist Committee: Letter rel. to R. Cobden,: 1863.
f. 13 James Edwin Thorold Rogers, MP; political economist: Letter to Mrs K. Fisher: 1870.
f. 13 Kate Fisher, née Cobden; daughter of Richard Cobden; wife of R C Fisher: Letter to,: 1870.
ff. 13-179b Emma Jane Catherine Unwin, née Cobden; daughter of Richard Cobden, wife of T F Unwin: Correspondence and papers,: 1852-1939.
f. 18 Sir George Dalhousie Ramsay, of the War Office: Letter to Sir L. Mallet,: 1877.
ff. 18, 29, 32 Sir Louis Mallet, CB; Under-Secretary of State for India: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1877-1878.
ff. 18, 29, 32 Sir Louis Mallet, CB; Under-Secretary of State for India: Letters to,: 1877-1878.
f. 20 Sir James Coxe, MD: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1877.
f. 22b John Hilson, of Jedburgh: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1877.
f. 26 Colonel George Salis Schwabe, MP: Letter to Miss E. M. A. Cobden,: 1878.
f. 26 Ellen Millicent Ashburner Cobden, afterwards Sickert; wife of West Riding Sickert, RA: Letter to,: 1878.
f. 29 William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister: Letter to Sir L. Mallet,: 1878: Copy.
f. 32 Henry Richard, MP: Letter to Sir L. Mallet: 1878.
f. 33 Frederica König, of Berne; widow of [Arnold?] König: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1878.
f. 35 Helen Priestman Clark, née Bright; wife of W S Clark; daughter of J Bright, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1879.
ff. 37, 147 John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1882-1901.
f. 39 Theodore Beck, of Stoke Newington: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1882.
f. 41 Lady Mary Henrietta Howard, afterwards Murray; wife (1889) of Gilbert Murray: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1883.
f. 43 Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Baronet: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1883.
ff. 45-46 William Thomas Stead, Editor, 'The Pall Mall Gazette': Letter, etc., to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1884: Partly printed.
f. 47 Leonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1884.
f. 49 Augustus George Vernon Harcourt, FRS; of Christ Church, Oxford: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1884.
f. 51 John Pennington Thomasson, former MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1886.
f. 63 David Stephens, of Falcarragh: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1888.
f. 66 Catherine Sullivan, née Healy; wife of T D Sullivan: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1888.
f. 69 Reginald Garton Wilberforce, son of Bishop S Wilberforce: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889.
ff. 71, 72, 95, 100b George Lansbury, PC; MP: Letters, etc., to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889-1892: Partly printed.
f. 72 Printed Matter: Letter from G. Lansbury to electors of Bow and Bromley,: 1889.
f. 73 Jacob Bright, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889.
ff. 75-76 Frederick Arthur Alexander Rowland, solicitor: Letter, etc., to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889: Signed.
ff. 77, 81-86 Margaret Mansfield, widow of William, 1st Baron Sandhurst: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889-1890.
f. 79 Timothy Daniel Sullivan, Irish poet and MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1889.
ff. 89, 144-146 Priscilla Bright McLaren, widow of D McLaren, MP: Letters, etc., to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin,: 1891-1901.
ff. 91, 115 Rosalind Frances Howard, wife of George, 9th Earl of Carlisle: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1891, 1894.
f. 96 Printed Matter: Speech by Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin to Women's Liberal Federation: circa 1889-1891.
ff. 98, 126, 128, 130, 152, 153 John Albert Bright, MP; son of John Bright, PC, MP: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1892-1906.
ff. 102-104b Ursula Mellor Bright, wife of Jacob Bright, MP: Letter, etc., to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1892.
f. 105b Canon James MacFadden, Irish RC priest; member of Land League: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1892.
f. 107 Francis Wilfrid Lawson, artist: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1892.
f. 109 Caroline Rose Erskine, widow of Henry, 12th Earl of Buchan: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: bef. 1893.
ff. 111-114 Francis Jackson Garrison, son of W L Garrison, American anti-slavery leader: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1893.
f. 117 Harriette E. Colenso, daughter of Bishop J W Colenso: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1894.
f. 118 George Jacob Holyoake, reformer: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1894.
f. 120 James Mellor Paulton, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: circa 1893-1895.
f. 122 John Bonham Carter, son of J Bonham Carter, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1897.
f. 124 Frederic Coleridge Mackarness, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1899.
f. 132 Francis Jackson Garrison, son of W L Garrison, American anti-slavery leader: Letter to T. Fisher Unwin: 1899.
f. 132 Thomas Fisher Unwin, publisher: Letter to,: 1899.
f. 133 James Anson Farrer, of Ingleborough, county Yorkshire: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1900.
f. 135 Sophia Sturge, daughter of J Sturge, philanthropist: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1900: Signed.
f. 137 Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1900.
f. 139 Thomas Fisher Unwin, publisher: Letter to, from his wife, Jane: 1900.
f. 142b Abraham Fischer, South African statesman: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1900.
f. 148 Jane Morris, wife of William Morris: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1901.
f. 150 John Gill, of Penryn: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1904.
ff. 155, 161 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, poet: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1908, 1912.
f. 157b William Crooks, MP: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1908.
f. 159 Edward Granville Browne, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1910.
ff. 163-167 George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM; historian: Letters to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1913.
ff. 168-170 Herbert John Gladstone, Viscount Gladstone: Correspondence with Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1925.
f. 171 May Morris, alias Mary; daughter of William Morris: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1926.
f. 172 Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard University: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1927: Signed.
f. 173 William Henry Beveridge, Baron Beveridge: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1928: Signed.
f. 174 Cordell Hull, US Secretary of State: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1933: Signed.
f. 175 Leifchild Stratton Leif-Jones, Baron Rhayader; formerly Jones: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1935.
f. 177 John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond, journalist and historian: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1939: Signed.
f. 179 Mrs Eveline Mary Lowe, Chairman, London County Council: Letter to Mrs Jane Cobden Unwin: 1939.
f. 180b Arthur Melanchthon Perkins, Congregational minister: Letter to P. D. Drury: 1935: Photocopy.

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Record Type (Level):

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Languages:

English
French

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1852

End Date:

1939

Date Range:

1852-1939

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Custodial History:

Richard Cobden-Sanderson, publisher; son of T J Cobden-Sanderson: Presented, in 1964.

f. 180b Paul Dalou Drury, RE: Presented, in 1972.

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Names:

Beck, Theodore, of Stoke Newington
Beveridge, William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge, social reformer and economist, 1879-1963
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, diplomat, poet and horse breeder, 1840-1922
Bright, Jacob, politician, 1821-1899
Bright, John Albert, MP, son of John Bright PC MP
Bright, Ursula Mellor, campaigner for women's rights; wife of Jacob Bright MP, 1835-1915
Brown, John, of Osawatomie, opponent of slavery
Browne, Edward Granville, orientalist, 1862-1926
Burne-Jones, Philip, 2nd Baronet
Carter, John Bonham, son of J Bonham Carter MP
Clark, Helen Priestman, née Bright wife of W S Clark, daughter of J Bright MP
Cobden, Ellen Millicent Ashburner, afterwards Sickert wife of W R Sickert RA
Cobden, Richard, manufacturer and politician, 1804-1865
Colenso, Harriette E, daughter of Bishop J W Colenso
Courtney, Leonard Henry, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
Coxe, James, MD
Crooks, William, MP
Drury, Paul Dalou, painter and printmaker, 1903-1987
Erskine, Caroline Rose, widow of Henry 12th Earl of Buchan
Farrer, James Anson, justice of the peace, 1849-1925
Fischer, Abraham, South African statesman, 1850-1913
Fisher, Kate, daughter of Richard Cobden, wife of R C Fisher, b 1844
Garrison, Francis Jackson, abolitionist and son of William Lloyd Garrison, 1848-1916
Gill, John, of Penryn, correspondent of Jane Cobden Unwin, fl 1904
Gladstone, Herbert John, Viscount Gladstone, politician and colonial governor, 1854-1930
Gladstone, William Ewart, prime minister and author, 1809-1898
Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton, journalist and historian, 1872-1949
Harcourt, Augustus George Vernon, FRS, of Christ Church Oxford
Harrison, Frederic, President English Positivist Committee
Hilson, John, of Jedburgh
Holyoake, George Jacob, freethinker and co-operator, 1817-1906
Howard, Mary Henrietta, 1889 afterwards Murray wife of Gilbert Murray
Howard, Rosalind Frances, wife of George 9th Earl of Carlisle
Hull, Cordell, US Sec of State
König, Frederica, Arnold? of Berne, widow of König
Lansbury, George, politician, 1859-1940
Lawson, Francis Wilfrid, artist
Lawson, Wilfrid, 2nd Baronet
Leif-Jones, Leifchild Stratton, formerly Jones Baron Rhayader
Lowe, Eveline Mary, Mrs Chairman London County Council
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, President of Harvard University
MacFadden, James, Roman Catholic priest and tenant leader, 1842-1917
Mackarness, Frederic Coleridge, MP
Mallet, Louis, CB, Under-Sec of State for India
Mansfield, Margaret, widow of William 1st Baron Sandhurst
McLaren, Priscilla Bright, widow of D McLaren MP
Morley, John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, statesman, 1838-1923
Morris, Jane, embroiderer and artist's model, wife of William Morris, 1839-1914
Morris, Mary, designer and craftswoman, called May, 1862-1938
Noirtin, G, Captain 1st Régiment de Chasseurs d'Afrique
Paulton, James Mellor, MP
Perkins, Arthur Melanchthon, Congregational minister
Ramsay, George Dalhousie, of the War Office
Richard, Henry, MP
Rogers, James Edwin Thorold, MP, political economist
Rowland, Frederick Arthur Alexander, solicitor
Sanderson, Richard, publisher, son of T J Cobden-Sanderson, b 1914
Schwabe, George Salis, Colonel MP
Stead, William Thomas, newspaper editor, 1849-1912
Stephens, David, of Falcarragh
Sturge, Sophia, daughter of J Sturge philanthropist
Sullivan, Catherine, née Healy wife of T D Sullivan
Sullivan, Timothy Daniel, Irish nationalist, poet and politician, 1827-1914
Thomasson, John Pennington, former MP
Trevelyan, George Macaulay, OM, historian, 1876-1962
Unwin, Emma Jane Catherine, née Cobden daughter of Richard Cobden wife of T F Unwin
Unwin, Thomas Fisher, publisher
Wilberforce, Reginald Garton, son of Bishop S Wilberforce