Manuscripts

1750-1864

Description: Letters addressed to Frances Power Cobbe cover women's suffrage and rights; antivivisection, her work in Bristol and her moral and religious writings; comments on her books and articles.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1855-1904.
Call number: mssCB
Creator: Cobbe, Frances Power (1822-1904)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Correspondents include Mary Carpenter, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Charles Darwin, Earl of Shaftesbury, James Anthony Froude, Keshub Chunder Sen, James Martineau, Theodore Parker, Felix Pecaut, and others.
Provenance: Purchased from Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, 1949.
Associated people: Carpenter, Mary, (1807-1877.); Darwin, Charles, (1809-1882.); Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, (1801-1885.); Froude, James Anthony, (1818-1894.); Martineau, James, (1805-1900.); Sen, Keshub Chunder, (1838-1884.); Parker, Theodore, (1810-1860.); Pécaut, Félix, (1828-1898.)
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