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ECG letter to Marianne Gaskell
c. 16 May 1862
Begins "Friday Evening. We have been about all day..." Letter describes 32 Belgrave Road and Gaskell's search for a house. Letter dated ‘May 1862’, presumably the 16th.
ECG letter to Marianne Gaskell
c. 7 May 1862
Letter begins "My very dearest Polly, I have ever so much to say to you; but Meta and Florence are up in their own room." Talks about going as far as Reading with Meta and Florence and accepting G Beh...
ECG letter to Maria Susan Rye
c. 15 Sep 1862
Letter addressed to Maria Susan Rye, founder of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society in 1861. Begins "Dear Miss Rye, We brought 3 factory girls (going service)…" Describes a box which the girl...
Holland family correspondence and related material
1838 - 1891
Includes genealogical notes on the Holland and Gaskell families, incl. an extract from the Manchester Guardian on Sir Henry Holland’s ancestry (1888), and a drawing of the coat of arms of Henry VI H...