Letters from Thomas Clarkson, with related material.
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Letters from Thomas Clarkson, with related material.
Classmark: BC MS Misc. Letters 2 Clarkson
Creator(s): Clarkson, Thomas
Date(s): 1817-1839
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 letters (4 ff. conjoined in 2 pairs), 1 printed portrait, 1 printed illustration, and 1 small card, all held in 1 envelope, manuscript and printed material.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/8148
Description
Comprises 1 autograph letter from Thomas Clarkson to Mr. W. Brown dated 9 February 1817, 1 autograph letter from the same to Benjamin Brame of Ipswich, undated, but probably 1837, according to a pencilled note inside the letter signed by 'Wm.H.B.' (with transcripts), 1 signed portrait of Thomas Clarkson engraved by J. Cochran and printed by Fisher, Son, & Co., London..., 1839, 1 printed illustration of Playford Hall, Suffolk, Clarkson's residence, drawn, etched, & published by Henry Davy, Globe Street, Ipswich, 26 May, 18[2?]1, and 1 small card containing pencilled biographical notes concerning Thomas Clarkson. The bound volume also contains a typescript biography of Clarkson which is different from that found in the Dictionary of National Biography.
The material was formerly bound into a volume containing also transcripts of the letters, which is now shelved in a separate author/alphabetical sequence following the main sequence of Miscellaneous Letters.
Biography or history
Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), the philanthropist. For fuller details of his life and achievements see the Dictionary of National Biography.
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