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Detail View: Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: JRL050436dc

Image Number: 
JRL050436dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 730/4
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Page of letter
Series Title: 
Letters to Elizabeth and William Gaskell
Parent Work Title: 
Letter from Samuel Bamford to Elizabeth Gaskell
Creator: 
Bamford, Samuel, 1788-1872
Creator Role: 
Author
Date Created: 
1849-03-09
Page/Sheet: 
6-7
Description: 
Pages from a letter to Elizabeth Gaskell from Samuel Bamford in which he commends her depiction of the poor in "Mary Barton". Although he finds some errors with her rendering of the Lancashire dialect he is surprised that there are so few.
Language Code: 
eng-GB
Language: 
English
Subject: 
English literature
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Correspondence
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Paper
Time Period Covered: 
19th Century CE
People Covered: 
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
IPR restrictions may apply
Notes: 
Finding aids: M. Tyson, Handlist of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1929), and additional volumes by M. Tyson (1935), F. Taylor (1951), and G.A. Matheson and F. Taylor (1977); F. Taylor, Supplementary Handlist of Western Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library (Manchester, 1937), pp. 21-31; card index of autograph collections.