COLLECTION NAME:
Rylands Collection
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Manchester~91~1
Rylands Collection
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Image Number:
English_MS_1396_9.pdf
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English_MS_1396_9.pdf
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Reference Number:
English MS 1396/9
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English MS 1396/9
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Series Title:
Letters from Richard Cobden, (1844-1860)
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Letters from Richard Cobden, (1844-1860)
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Parent Work Title:
Letter from Richard Cobden to Edmund Potter
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Letter from Richard Cobden to Edmund Potter
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Creator:
Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
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Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
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Creator Role:
Author
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Author
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false
Date Created:
1853-12-29
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1853-12-29
Date Created
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Description:
Letter marked "private" sent from Midhurst, West Sussex, thanking Potter for his letter. Cobden writes about the strikes in Preston, Lancashire. Cobden talks of working class attitudes and mentalities: he says they need a man like [Benjamin] Franklin to remedy them by putting the truth "in a simple and acceptable form" to become "household words of the labouring classes", though there is "no present opening for the exercise of cool reason and argument". Cobden sees the strikes as "a warning of the dangers we incur by neglecting the education of the masses". Cobden expresses surprise at the success of the strikes in a period of unemployment and low agricultural wages. Cobden mentions his casual employment of a dozen men from "one of the worst" parishes and criticises a Mr Cowell about his notion of fixed wages. He adds a postscript about his admiration of the speech by Mr Atkins at Glossop reported in the Manchester Examiner.
description
Letter marked "private" sent from Midhurst, West Sussex, thanking Potter for his letter. Cobden writes about the strikes in Preston, Lancashire. Cobden talks of working class attitudes and mentalities: he says they need a man like [Benjamin] Franklin to remedy them by putting the truth "in a simple and acceptable form" to become "household words of the labouring classes", though there is "no present opening for the exercise of cool reason and argument". Cobden sees the strikes as "a warning of the dangers we incur by neglecting the education of the masses". Cobden expresses surprise at the success of the strikes in a period of unemployment and low agricultural wages. Cobden mentions his casual employment of a dozen men from "one of the worst" parishes and criticises a Mr Cowell about his notion of fixed wages. He adds a postscript about his admiration of the speech by Mr Atkins at Glossop reported in the Manchester Examiner.
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Language Code:
eng-GB
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eng-GB
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Language:
English
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English
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Category of Material:
Archives
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Archives
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Sub-Category:
Letters (correspondence)
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Letters (correspondence)
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Technique Used:
Handwriting
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Handwriting
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false
Medium:
Ink
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Ink
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Support:
Paper
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Paper
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false
Creation Site:
England: West Sussex: Midhurst
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England: West Sussex: Midhurst
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false
People Covered:
Potter, Edmund, 1802-1883
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Potter, Edmund, 1802-1883
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Item Height:
180 mm
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180 mm
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Item Width:
110 mm
Current Repository:
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work:
Copyright restrictions may apply
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Copyright restrictions may apply
Rights holder - Work
false
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
2023-02-02
Image Creation Technique:
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
2023-03
Metadata Language:
eng-GB
Collection Code:
Rylands
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Rylands
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