BIB_ID
105345
Accession number
MA 23248
Creator
Hardie, James Keir, 1856-1915.
Display Date
Merthyr, Wales, 1909 December 26.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Previously accessioned as MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson and other family members.
Addressed "Dear Comrade." The identity of the recipient is unclear however it seems likely it was written to Anne Cobden-Sanderson and the engraving Hardie refers to likely was a reference to the portrait of her father, Richard Cobden, for the cover of a pamphlet she wrote on her father titled "Richard Cobden and the Land of the People", published in 1905 with a foreword written by Hardie.
Addressed "Dear Comrade." The identity of the recipient is unclear however it seems likely it was written to Anne Cobden-Sanderson and the engraving Hardie refers to likely was a reference to the portrait of her father, Richard Cobden, for the cover of a pamphlet she wrote on her father titled "Richard Cobden and the Land of the People", published in 1905 with a foreword written by Hardie.
Provenance
Purchased, 1956.
Summary
About the forthcoming election and an engraving of Cobden-Sanderson's father; saying "We are going to have a very hard tussle here this time, tho' I am quite confident that we shall come out of it all right. The delay in issuing the writs will add five days to the length of the contest, which will now be on the 19th instead of the 14th as originally planned. I am writing particularly to ask you whether the plates advertised in the enclosed, either or both, are good. I have not a good picture of your father, and want one. Let me have your opinion. By the time you get here the campaign will be in full swing. At the moment, owing to the holidays, there is not much doing."
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