William Ewart Gladstone manuscript material : 7 items, 1843-1867

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William Ewart Gladstone manuscript material : 7 items, 1843-1867

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· To Abraham Hayward, essayist and translator : 4 autograph letters signed : -- 6 May 1853 : (MISC 3516b) : including, "I am gathering all the [best?] information I can upon the Advertisement duty ..." -- 10 Jan 1858 : (MISC 3516c) : returning a borrowed publication of some sort ; asking for another on law reform. -- 6 Nov 1858 : (MISC 3516d) : begins, "It is really true; even do I wonder at your wondering for I wonder a little myself." -- 2 Feb 1867 : (MISC 3516e) : begins, "Many thanks for your articles." All letters together in one folder, along with two autograph envelopes addressed to Hayward. · To W. H. Lyttelton, Church of England clergyman : 1 autograph letter signed : 22 Sep [no year] : (MISC 1701) : thanking him for an interesting and useful letter. · To Sir Frederick Pollock, Attorney General for England and Wales : 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Aug 1843 : (MISC 0355) : in his position as president of the Board of Trade, proposing to meet with Sir Robert Peel and his correspondent to discuss "the matter with Wilde" ; hoping for an "agreement among the parties." Along with two typed letters signed from Coleridge scholar Earl Leslie Griggs offering and then and thanking Carl H. Pforzheimer for a favor, and offering the Gladstone letter (and two others). · To Jane Porter, novelist : 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Jun 1843 : (MISC 2414) : begins, "The token of sympathy which you acknowledge in your note of the 21st was so slight and trivial that I feel ashamed at its having been made the subject of notice."

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7108958

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Pollock, F. (Frederick), 1783-1870

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