Item 9 - Letter from Mary Elizabeth Bright to Lord Houghton

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HOUG/D/E/3/17/9

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Letter from Mary Elizabeth Bright to Lord Houghton

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  • 12 Sept. [1884] (Creation)

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2 ff., with printed enclosures: pp. 1-25 (2 copies); pp. 1-27.

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Ashfield, Knotty Ash. - Encloses pamphlets by Henry Bright on shipboard cruelties and abolition of cruelty, which George Melly said Houghton would like to see.

Enclosures: Unpunished Cruelties on the High Seas: reprint of a letter to Samuel Whitbread Esq., M.P, in 1849, with additional notes and Preface addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Houghton, by a Liverpool Merchant [printed in 1873, Liverpool, by Gilbert G. Walmsley, 2 copies]; Free Blacks and Slaves. Would Immediate Action be a Blessing. A letter to the Editor of the Anti-Slavery Advocate by a Cambridge Man [printed in 1853 in London by Arthur Hall Virtue & Co and Liverpool by Deighton & Laughton].

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