Notes on the marriage of John Stuart Mill : the cremation of the poet Shelley; comments on W. E. Gladstone / by John Arthur Roebuck, P.C., M.P., Q.C., 1873-1878.

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Notes on the marriage of John Stuart Mill : the cremation of the poet Shelley; comments on W. E. Gladstone / by John Arthur Roebuck, P.C., M.P., Q.C., 1873-1878.

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Manuscript notes describing his long friendship with John Stuart Mill and its termination (17p.); the exhumation and cremation of Percy Bysshe Shelley (2p.); and an anecdote concerning William Ewart Gladstone (2p.).

1 portfolio (12 leaves) ; 23 x 18 cm.

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