A second batch of letters from the Autograph Letter Collection totalling 3,200 letters.
This collection contains letters of prominent correspondents dating from 1851 to 1975. They cover such themes as suffrage, education, medicine, women and the Church, literature, employment, temperance, scholarship, industry, travel and the arts. Many of these letters were considered ‘Autograph’ letters by famous correspondents such as William Gladstone, Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, the Pankhursts, Annie Besant, Thomas Hardy, Keir Hardie and John Stuart Mill to name but a few.
The entire collection is arranged into 30 groups either by themes mentioned above or by individual. They include letters by Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and suffragist.
Marvellous to see the original handwriting but sometimes impossible to read!
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