BIB_ID
362501
Accession number
MA 7358.50
Creator
Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865.
Display Date
[1862 November 22].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Probably written on 22 November 1862, the Saturday Cobden was leaving Manchester with his wife, having been staying there with his sister Priscilla Sale at Higher Broughton.
Part of a volume of autographs compiled by Jane H. Barge. Select items from the collection are described in individual records; see record for MA 7358 for more details.
Part of a volume of autographs compiled by Jane H. Barge. Select items from the collection are described in individual records; see record for MA 7358 for more details.
Provenance
Jane H. Barge; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking him on his wife's behalf for "what she is so superstitious as to call the complete cure which your prescription has afforded her"; sending his regards to Barge's daughter, "whose admiration is so boundless as to embrace those opposite extremes of poetry Burns & Tennyson!"
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