BIB_ID
157575
Accession number
MA 3038.1-6
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
Ireland, 1825-1833.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1975.
Description
6 items (20 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
See Collection File for additional information.
Thomas Spring-Rice was a Whig politican born into an Irish gentry family. In the period covered by these letters, he was near the start of his political career, beginning with his election to the House of Commons in 1820 and his stints as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (with responsibility for Irish affairs) under Canning and Lord Goderich, and Joint Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grey.
Thomas Spring-Rice was a Whig politican born into an Irish gentry family. In the period covered by these letters, he was near the start of his political career, beginning with his election to the House of Commons in 1820 and his stints as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (with responsibility for Irish affairs) under Canning and Lord Goderich, and Joint Secretary to the Treasury under Lord Grey.
Provenance
Purchased from John Wilson, 22 October 1975.
Summary
Being a collection of 6 autograph letters signed from Maria Edgeworth to Thomas Spring-Rice, written primarily from Edgeworthstown and Navan in Ireland, between 1825 and 1833; concerning Irish politics, the relationship between Ireland and England, Catholic emancipation, Spring-Rice's career, the brutal death of a schoolboy at Eton, and other subjects. One letter in the collection is undated, one has no place of writing, and one letter is not specifically addressed to Spring-Rice but concerns him. Letters in the collection have been described individually in 6 separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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