Business and private letters sent to William Neild esq. of Manchester, including one from William Ewart Gladstone, and one from Richard Cobden. The latter, four closely-written pages, dated at Salzburg, 30 September 1838, gives Cobden's impressions of his tour in Germany.
With this donation came the following printed book: Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The clockmaker; or, The sayings and doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, 3 vols (London: R. Bentley, 1838-1840), inscribed: Wm. Neild, from his friend Richd Cobden, 4 Jan., 1839. Read, laugh and forget the Corporation, R.C.