Address: Kilgarriffe, Clonakilty, County Cork. To 'Madam' [?Mary Ann Gilbert, wife of Davies Gilbert (then President of the Royal Society) and founder of the Self-Suporting School of Industry, Willington, Sussex]. Acknowledges receipt of 'your pamphlet on self-supporting schools', but doubts whether such an establishment would be successful in Ireland. Encloses a 'copy of the regulations of some allotments which I am trying to establish here'.
Autograph, with signature. The accompanying pamphlet is inscribed: 'Requested to be returned to Mrs. Gilbert'.
William Bence Jones letter
This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London
- Reference
- GB 96 AL475
- Dates of Creation
- 29th Oct 1844
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 7.25" x 4.5" 2 leaves
Scope and Content
Arrangement
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This document and the accompanying pamphlet ('Labourers' garden allotments: regulations') are inserted in W B Jones 'A letter on the value of green crops' (1841) - Library classmark [G.L.] M.841. To request the document, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letter AL475.
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