Letters [manuscript]. 1849.

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Letters [manuscript]. 1849.

Two letters written by Cobden to Colonel Jebb on 19 July 1849 and 20 August 1849. The first letter requests information on the deportation of the Chartist prisoner Mullins, held in Pentonville Prison. In the second letter Cobden accepts Jebb's invitation to accompany him on a visit to Pentonville Prison.

1 cm. (2 leaves).

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Jebb, Joshua Sir, 1793-1863

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Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865

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Richard Cobden, English textile manufacturer and politician. From the guide to the Richard Cobden manuscript material : 1 item, ca 1843, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Cobden was born in Dunford, Sussex, England on June 3, 1804; became a middle-class manufacturer and MP, advocating free trade, non-intervention in foreign affairs, an end to aristocratic misrule, and a variety of radical political reforms; became intere...

Jebb, Joshua

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Sir Joshua Jebb, 1793-1863, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1812, serving in Canada and the USA, and by 1837, he had been promoted to 1st Captain. In 1838, he was appointed to hold enquiries on grants of charters of incorporation to Bolton and Sheffield, and he also served on the Commission on the Municipal Boundary of Birmingham. In 1839 he was seconded from the army to work as technical advisor to the Secretary of State on prison building, following the 1837 Act requiring the Secretary...