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Title: Richard Cobden Letters,
Date (inclusive): 1833-1865
Collection number: 1040
Creator: Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865
Extent:
2 boxes (1 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Richard Cobden (1804-1865) was born in Dunford, Sussex, England. He was a middle-class manufacturer and MP. He became interested
in the Manchester Anti-Corn Law Association in 1838 and helped to transform it into the National Anti-Corn-Law League. Cobden
was elected to Parliament in 1841, 1847 and 1859. The collection consists of 225 items, mostly correspondence from Cobden
to others concerning his activities as a leader of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 1838-46.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
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[Identification of item], Richard Cobden Letters (Collection 1040). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
964294
Cobden was born in Dunford, Sussex, England on June 3, 1804; became a middle-class manufacturer and Member of Parliament,
advocating free trade, non-intervention in foreign affairs, an end to aristocratic misrule, and a variety of radical political
reforms; became interested in the Manchester Anti-Corn Law Association in 1838 and helped to transform it into the National
Anti-Corn-Law League; the League agitated for the repeal of the Corn and Provision Laws, which was achieved in 1846 due to
the famine in Ireland; elected to Parliament in 1841 and again in 1847, working for international arbitration, financial reform
and arms reduction; opposed the conduct of the Crimean War; although defeated in 1857, he returned to Parliament in 1859;
he negotiated reciprocal tariff reductions with France, 1860; died in London on April 2, 1865.
Collection consists of 225 items, mostly correspondence from Cobden to others concerning his activities as a leader of the
Anti-Corn-Law League, 1838-46. Includes letters to Salis Schwabe, Julie Salis-Schwabe, William Tait, his brothers and sisters,
and others. Also includes materials regarding testimonials and a pamphlet by Cobden titled, 1793 and 1853, in three letters.
Arranged in the following series:
- Letters from Cobden to siblings (Box 1).
- Letters from Cobden to Salis Schwabe, 1846-52 (Box 1).
- Letters from Cobden to Mme. Julie Salis-Schwabe, 1850-64 (Box 2).
- Letters from Cobden to William Tait, 1835-41 (Box 2).
- Letters from Cobden to various persons (Box 2).
- Notes and printed material (Box 2).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Cobden, Richard, 1804-1865--Correspondence.
Salis-Schwabe, Julie, 1819-1897.
Tait, William, 1793-1864.
Anti-Corn-Law League.
Legislators--England--Archival resources.
Social reformers--England--Archival resources.
Corn laws (Great Britain).
Alphabetical List Of Correspondents
Note
(* indicates added entry in numbered collections catalog.)
Ashley,
Lord see Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,
7th Earl of.
* Black, Adam, 1784-1874.
2 letters: Box 2, folders 18 & 24.
Bunsen, Chevalier
1 copy of letter to: Box 2, folder 8. Also 1 copy of a letter to: Box 2, folder 1
Cobden, Charles
1 letter: Box 1, folder 4.
Cobden Frederick W.
20 letters: Box 1, folders 1-8.
Cobden, Harry
1 letter: Box 1, folder 3.
Cobden, Katherine
2 letters: Box 1, folder 8.
Cobden, Millicent
1 letter: Box 1, folder 3.
Heron, J.S.
1 letter: Box 2, folder 17.
Kershaw,
1 letter: Box 2, folder 19.
* Reed, Charles, 1819-1881.
1 letter: Box 2, folder 21.
Schwabe, Salis
38 letters: Box 1, folders 9-15.
* Salis-Schwabe,
Mme. Julie, 1819-1897.
63 letters: Box 2, folders 1-11.
* Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,
7th Earl of, 1801-1885.
3 letters: Box 2, folders 21, 22 & 26.
* Tait, William, 1793-1864.
26 letters: Box 2, folders 12-15 (14 letters), 16 (6 letters), 20 (1 letter) & 24 (5 letters)
Toms, George
3 letters: Box 2, folders 17, 20 & 26.
* Waghorn, Thomas, 1800-1850.
1 letter: Box 2, folder 20.
Wood,
1 letter: Box 2, folder 21.