William Black: Biographical notes on eminent seventh-day baptists, and on other observers of the seventh-day sabbath

Scope and Content

Arranged alphabetically. Among supplementary notes on slips, guarded in, are letters to Black from (fo. 4c) 'J. E.', no date; (fo. 4e) J. H. Bransby, 31 July 1846; (fo. 11a) J. O. Halliwell, 7 July 1850; and (fo. 11i) William Courthope, 16 Sep. 1847.

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Acquisition Information

Sotheby's sale, 29 July 1873, no. 404. Presented by J. E. B. Mayor, 27 July 1891.

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Bibliography

Cf. W. H. Black (ed.), The last legacy of Joseph Davis, Senior, with documents relating to him, London, 1869.