Cobden, Richard 1804-1865
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1804 · died 1865
Richard Cobden was a British Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti–Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty.
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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, National Library of Scotland (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.University College London (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. British Library of Political and Economic Science (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