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Letter from W.E. Gladstone, Hawarden, to Jane Cobden, 1881 October 24 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
102330
Accession number
MA 23072
Creator
Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898.
Display Date
Hawarden, Wales, 1881 October 14.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Endorsed on the envelope.
Envelope with postage and postmarks to "Miss Cobden / 14 York Place, / Portman Square / W."
Formerly accessioned MA 1754 and acquired in 1956 with a large collection of letters to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and his family.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's London, lot 708, 27 June 1956.
Summary
Thanking her for the copy of "The Life" [of Cobden]; saying "Let me at once thank you for your kind gift, and congratulate you on the execution of the work...My estimate of your Father's noble qualities and splendid services hardly admits of being raised above the point at which it has long stood. If any thing had been lacking, such a work as Mr. Morley's would certainly have supplied the deficiency."