English manufacturer, reformer and Liberal Party politician (1825-1897). Autograph letter signed. [London]. 12.08.1882. 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. Includes a photographic portrait (103 x 144 mm).
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To the British politician Leonard Henry Courtney (1832-1918) about the extension of the South Kensington Museum (Victoria and Albert Museum): "We are sending a letter to the Treasury about the completion of the new buildings of the S. Kensington Museum. There has been so much fruitless correspondence about the selection of Genl [General] Scott and other details, that I rush to urge upon you the desirability of a meeting of the representatives of the Board of Wales, the Treasury and the Education Department, to dismiss the questions in dispute and to endeavour to arrive at some understanding without any further official [...].