BIB_ID
206256
Accession number
MA 3512
Creator
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835.
Display Date
[1829].
Credit line
Purchased, 1981.
Description
1 item (13 pages) ; 28.6 x 23.2 and 14.3 x 22.8 cm
Notes
Cobbett's Advice to Young Men was originally self-published in London in 1829 as "Advice to Young Men, and (Incidentally) to Young Women, in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life." The chapter which includes this manuscript is published in an edition published in London by Henry Frowde in 1906 and it's title says "From the Edition of 1829." Chapter IV begins on page 137 and ends on page 194 in this edition. This autograph manuscript portion runs from page 167-187.
Provenance
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund from Quaritch, cat. 1013, #6, 3 February 1981.
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript with corrections, revisions and some printers markings of approximately one-third of the chapter titled "Letter IV: To a Husband;" beginning with the passage beginning "...must have his will; or, there can never be harmony in the family" and ending with "They sharpened my industry: they spurred me on. To be sure, I had other and strong motives: I wrote for fame, and was urged forward by ill treatment, and by the desire to triumph over my enemies; but, after all, a very large part of my nearly a hundred volumes may be fairly ascribed to the wife and children;" together with the autograph draft of an advertisement for the "8th Number"...None of my little works have had a run equal to this. In the North people were thanking me for it every where. The young men, husbands, fathers and mothers. If it were on any account justifiable to be proud, it would be justifiable in me on account of this work." adding, in an autograph note beneath the text of the advertisement, "File up with my advertisements or any other that may come."
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