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COBDEN, RICHARD 1804-1865

 
 

Correspondence

1836-1865, diaries, 1836-1861, and a few other papers.
BL Add. MSS. 43647-43678, 43807-43808, 50131, 50748-50751.

 

1832-1865, including many copies of out-letters. Accounts, both business and estate, papers and notes on various topics, diaries andjournals. Cobden papers, West Sussex RO.

 

Some correspondence and a few miscellaneous papers, 1815—1865.

Cobden-Sanderson collection, West Sussex RO.

 

A small amount of correspondence, 1836-1861. Cobden and Unwin papers, West Sussex RO.

 

Cobden family papers, including some letters to and from Richard Cobden, mainly on business matters, 1825-1857. Manchester City Library.

 

A large collection of correspondence to family, Julie and Salis Schwabe and miscellaneous correspondents UCLA

 

Letters to Julie Schwabe, Thomas Hodgkin et al Beinecke Library, Yale University

 

Letters addressed to Cobden on the business of the Anti-Corn Law League are in the letter books of the League, 1838-1840, Manchester City Library.

 

Eight letters to various correspondents, 1842-1863. London UL, A.L.s 33-38, 351,250.

 

Nine letters to various correspondents, 1841-1855, in various collections. Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

 

One hundred and sixteen letters to various correspondents including James Wilson and Richard Page. Bodleian Library, Oxford

 

Letters to Rouher, Guizot, Prince Napoléon et al, Archives Nationales, Paris

 

Fourteen letters to various correspondents, Birmingham University Library

 

Thirty one letters, Denbighshire RO

 

Sixty nine letters to various correspondents, William Perkins Library, Duke University

 

Twelve letters to John Morton, Gloucestershire RO

 

Letters to Charles Sumner et al, Harvard University Library

 

Letters to Edmund Potter, Thomas Hunter, Edward Watkin, et al, JRUL, Manchester

 

Seventy three letters, mainly to Lord John Russell and Lord Cowley, National Archives

 

Twenty two lettters to Pulsky & Szemere, National Szechenyi Library

 

Six letters, National Archives of Scotland

 

Twenty nine letters, NLS

 

Forty one letters, New York Public Library

 

Fourteen letters, Historical Society of Pennslyvania

 

Eleven letters, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

 

Five letters, Princeton UL

 

Twelve letters to various correspondents, Stockport Public Library

 

Twelve letters to various correspondents, Trinity College Library, Cambridge

 

Letters to Sir Joshua Walmesley, William Mitchell et al, West Sussex RO

 

Correspondents

EDWARD BAINES, ten letters, 1841-1855. Baines papers, Leeds City Library, Archives Dept.

 

WILLLIAM BEADON, thirteen letters, 1840-1851. Somerset RO

 

JOHN BRIGHT, both sides of the correspondence, 1837—1865.
BL Add. MSS. 43383-43384, 43649-43652.

 

HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, nine letters, 1838-1863.
Brougham papers.UCL

 

JOHN HILL BURTON, c. 20 letters, 1839-1846. NLS MS.9406.

 

HENRY CATT, three letters, 1861. University of Chicago Library.

 

EDWARD DAVIES DAVENPORT, five letters, 1843-1845.

Bromley-Davenport Muniments, Manchester JRUL

 

THOMAS HAINES DUDLEY, four letters, 1863-1864

Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

 

WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE, over 400 letters, 1841-1865. BL Add. MSS. 44135-44136.

 

ALEXANDER IRELAND, c. 12 letters, 1855-1865. BL Add. MS. 33515.

 

LOUIS KOSSUTH, three letters. National Archives of Hungary

 

SIR LOUIS MALLET, 66 letters, 1860-1865. Mallet Papers, Balliol College Library

 

MARCO MINGHETTI, six letters, 1847-1861. Bibliotheca dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna

 

GEORGE MOFFATT, one hundred and six letters, 1853-1864. Herefordshire RO

 

JOSEPH PARKES, seven letters, 1852-1861. Parkes papers, UCL

 

FRANCIS PLACE, seven letters, 1840-1846. BL Add. MS. 35151

 

HENRY RICHARD, c.200 letters. BL

 

JAMES EDWIN THOROLD ROGERS, 55 letters, 1854-1865. Thorold Rogers papers, Bodleian

 

LORD JOHN RUSSELL, 1st Earl Russell, c. 12 letters, 1852-1860. BL Add. MS. 38080.

 

SAMUEL SMILES, 15 letters, 1841-1863. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

 

JOHN BENJAMIN SMITH, 115 letters, 1839-1865. J. B. Smith papers, Manchester City Library.

 

THOMAS SPENCER, four letters, 1848-1849. Spencer papers, London UL MS. 791.

 

CHARLES STURGE, 25 letters, 1842-1864. BL

 

JOSEPH STURGE, 481, 1839-1859. BL Add. MSS. 43722, 50131

 

HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, four letters, 1859-1860. Broadlands papers, Southampton UL

 

THOMAS THOMASSON, 22 letters. BLPES

 

GEORGE WILSON, c. 200 letters, 1837-1864. George Wilson papers, Manchester City Library.

 

Printed & Web Material

'Richard Cobden to Sir Joshua Walmsley, 1848-1863. Printed from the original manuscripts in the New York Public Library'. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 8 (1904), 9-21.

 

Letters of Richard Cobden to Charles Sumner’, American Historical Review II (1897), 294-319.

The American Diaries of Richard Cobden , ed. Elizabeth Hoon Cawley (Princeton, 1952).

 

The European Diaries of Richard Cobden, 1846-1849 , ed. Miles Taylor (Aldershot, 1994)

 

Edward Hughes, The Development of Cobden's Economic Doctrines and his Methods of Propaganda: Some Unpublished Corre­spondence', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester , 22:2 (1938), 405-18 (and separately pubished)

 

John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, Life of Richard Cobden (London, 1881).

 

J.Salis Schwabe, Reminiscences of Richard Cobden (London, 1895)

 

Palgrave I, 316; ODNB; Boase I, 659; ESS III 602; Dictionary of Modern British Radicals; Thoemmes Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers

 

The Letters of Richard Cobden ', www.uea.ac.uk/his/research/projects/cobden