Radicalism, Anti-Radicalism and Reform in England, 1769-1861: Original Papers and Minute BooksFrom the British Library manuscript collections. Add MS 16919-16928: ORIGINAL Letters from various writers, relating to the "Association for preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers," addressed to John Reeves, Chairman, and John Moore, Secretary, between 2 November, 1792, and 26 February, 1793. In seven Volumes Quarto and three Folio. [16,919-16,928.] Lacks Add MS 16926-16928. Add MS 16929-16931: DECLARATIONS and Resolutions of Societies similar to the above-mentioned Association, established in various places throughout the Kingdom; dated in December, 1792, and January and February, 1793 ; arranged in alphabetical order of places. Partly printed and partly manuscript. In three Volumes. Add MS 27778: PAPERS relating to the imprisonment of John Wilkes and Henry Sampson Woodfall, viz .:- 1. "Orders issued by Charles Rainsford, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Tower, respecting the detention of J[ohn] W[ilkes]." 1 May, 1763. Copied by Wilkes. f. 1. 2. "Mr. Woodfall's Bill of Costs on Information for Junius's letter to the King, 19th Dec. 1769," f. 3. 3. Order of the House of Commons to H. S. Woodfall to attend and answer for the printing of Horne's letter to the Speaker; 11 Feb. 1774, f. 16. 4. Draft of letter from [Woodfall] to John Hallstall, Clerk of the House of Commons, promising attendance, f. 18. 5. Petition of Woodfall to the House of Commons; his own draft and another in Hornes handwriting, ff. 10, 19. 6. Draft by Woodfall of his letter to asking him to present his petition to the House, f. 20. Paper; Quarto. Add MS 27779: PAPERS relating to the prosecution of the Rev. John Horne [afterwards Tooke] by the Rt. Hon. George Onslow [afterwards] Earl of Onslow], 1769, 1770, viz :- 1. Rt. Hon. G. Onslow to H. S. Woodfall; London, Ashburnham, 17 July, 1769-25 July, 1770, ff. 1, 5, 11, 15, 17, 19. 2. Mary Burns to the Rt. Hon. G. Onslow; London, 25 June, 1769. Copy. f. 7. 3. Rt. Hon. G. Onslow to M. Burns; Ember Court, 27 June, 1769, f. 9. 4. [Wills Hill, Earl of] Hillsborough to H. S. Woodfall; London, 2 Aug. 1769, f. 13. 5. Declaration of J. Pownall relative to the Rt. Hon. G. Onslow; Whitehall, 2 Aug. 1769, f. 14. 6. William Robins [attorney] to the Rt. Hon. G. Onslow] to H. S. Woodfall; Kingiston-upon-Thames, 4 April, 1770, f. 16. Paper. Small Quarto. Add MS 37773-37776: "THE MINUTES of the Working Men's Association, established June 26 th 1836." Four volumes. The bulk of the volumes is in the hand of William Lovett, the Chartist, first Secretary, from whom they were acquired by Edward Truelove, publisher. The gap between Vols. I. and II. represents the period of Lovett's imprisonment at Warwick. For an account of the Asssociation, the drafting of the Charter, etc., see his Autobiography, 1876, p. 92 ; and for some of the addresses, etc., included, see a collection of printed tracts by and belonging to him in the British Museum. Paper. Quarto. Presented by Maurice H. Truelove, Esq., son of the above Edw. Truelove. Lacks Add MS 37773. Add MS 37997: MINUTE-BOOK of the "Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge," from its foundation on the suggestion of Henry, Baron Broughanm, Lord Chancellor, 28 June, 1834, to its dissolution, 15 Aug. 1836. Paper; ff. 31. Quarto. Presented by the Rt. Hon. John Lubbock, Baron Avebury, P.C. Add MS 38593-38595: MINUTES of the Westminster "Committee of Association," 2 Feb. 1780-11 July, 1785. Three volumes. Many of the minutes are signed by Charles James Fox as Chairman, some (Vol. II, ff. 17 b, etc., and 42 b, etc.) being holograph ; those of a sub-committee (vol. I, f. 19) are signed by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and at vol. III, ff. 69, 72, 73 are drafts in his handwriting. A few letters are inserted in vol. III. Paper. Folio. Purchased at Sotheby's (sale-cat. 27 June, 1912, lot 210). Add MS 40005: MINUTE-BOOK of the Committee of the National Union of the Working Classes, 14 Oct.-21 Dec. 1831. The meetings recorded all took place at the Commercial Coffee House, Temple Bar, kept by W. Benbow. For a detailed account of the National Union, see the Place Papers, Add. MS. 27791, ff. 243-402. Paper; ff. 34. Quarto. Phillipps MS. 24322 (apparently not the same as lot 597 in the Phillipps sale, Mar. 1895). Presented by Professor Edwin Francis Gay of Harvard. Add MS 40687: LETTERS from Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor, to Sir John Archibald Murray, Lord Advocate, chiefly on political subjects, 1823-1858, n. d. Followed (f. 270) by eight letters from William Brougham [2nd Baron Brougham and Vaux 18681 to the, same, concerning the London Mechanics' Institute, 25 July-2 Dec. 1858. Paper; ff. 291. Folio. Add MS 41748: LETTERS OF RICHARD OASTLER, the 'Factory King', and author of 'The Fleet Papers', to Thomas Thornhill, of Riddlesworth Hall, co. Norf., with some draft replies of the latter, concerning the financial difficulties arising from Oastler's management of Thornhill's estates at Fixby, co. York; 27 Feb. 1834-4 June 1835. Followed (ff. 16-21b) by two letters from Oastler to John Hodgson Ramsbotham, his successor as steward at Fixby, 3, 11 Sept. 1838, and (ff. 22-39b) by papers relating to the action for recovery of books and debt brought by Thornhill against Oastler, 10 July 1840. For other papers of Oastler see C. Driver, Tory Radical: the Life of Richard Oastler, 1946, p. 563. Paper; ff. i + 38. A.D. 1834-1840. Presented by T. B. Clarke-Thornhill, Esq., grandson of Thomas Thornhill. Add MS 42519: THE BIRMINGHAM RIOTS: inventory and valuation of the property of George Humphrys, a merchant of Birmingham, which was lost or damaged in the attack upon his house at Sparkbrook in Aston, Birmingham, co. Warw., on 16 July 1791, during the riots directed against Dr Joseph Priestley and the Dissenters, as presented in a suit brought by him against the Hundred of Hemlingford; 1792. See The Riots at Birmingham, July 1791 (Birmingham, 1863), PP. 3-5, and 'View of the Ruins', no. 6; An Authentic Account of the Riots in Birmingham (Deritend in Aston, 1791), P. 9. Paper; ff. ii + 28. Quarto. A. D. 1792. Presented by the Birmingham Public Libraries Committee. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.