BIB_ID
206440
Accession number
MA 9393
Creator
Cobden Unwin, Mrs. (Jane)
Display Date
1946 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased, 1956.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 13.3 xm
Notes
Richard Cobden-Sanderson was the son of T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, nephew of Jane Cobden Unwin and the grandson of Richard Cobden.
A note, in an unknown hand, at the bottom of the final page reads "Repeal of the Corn Laws Celebrated at / Dunford House, June 29, 1946. / Read by R. Cobden-Sanderson."
Previously accessioned as MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other relatives.
A note, in an unknown hand, at the bottom of the final page reads "Repeal of the Corn Laws Celebrated at / Dunford House, June 29, 1946. / Read by R. Cobden-Sanderson."
Previously accessioned as MA 1754, part of a collection of letters to T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, his wife Anne Cobden-Sanderson, and other relatives.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby Sale, 27 June 1956, Lot 708.
Summary
Being a speech given by Jane Cobden Unwin at Dunford House, June 29, 1946 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Repeal of the Corn Laws; saying "'The Bill is through, and I shall be home to tea'. So went a message from Richard Cobden, my father, to my mother in Manchester just one hundred years ago. So after 7 years of hard work - 'the great Republic of the West' was granted the power to send food to the starving people in Europe. When Richard Cobden was in Scotland by day, travelling by coach, & speaking to the people in towns & villages in the evenings, I have read when it was known he was on the coach just arrived, the church bells of that town or village would be rung and he would speak to the people in their churches & sometimes from the pulpit. Mr. Bright wrote to my father, I have seen the letter, begging him to continue head of the Anti-Corn Law League & stating the League would fall to pieces did he not do so - He did so with the result his own affairs, including an excellent business in Manchester , fell to pieces - Since those days England has steadily improved, & no one has starved as in the Old Hungry Forties. So today let us thank Richard Coben for the cheap loaf - Seeing him as I did from day to day until I was 15, I can say he was the kindest and gentlest of men - all about him loved him, not forgetting his little dog Foxey. - 'The Bill is through and I shall be home to tea;" adding, in her autograph, From Mrs. Cobden Unwin / Joint President with / Dr. Murray Butler / of the Dunford House / Richard Cobden Memorial / Association."
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