A POWERFUL PLEA
BRIGGS
(Jeremiah, Attorney at Law, General Manager of the National Labour Alliance)
'The Labour-Advocate', No. 1, price one penny,
headed "Wages without Stoppages!!!", describing how piece-earnings of 4s to 13s a week have all but a few pence stopped as Frame-Rent, Charges and Fines, the misery that follows, and the need to establish by law "</i>Net</i> instead of Nominal Contracts", with verses and articles on the "fatal scourge" of competition and "truck", advertisements for "The Labour Hall, Park Street, Derby", its reading room, and nightly meeting at 8 p.m., 8 sides 4to., 28 Iron Gate, Derby, no date, c.
light damage at end with loss (?deliberate) of the printer's name and some text on the inside as a result
Item Date:
1855
Stock No:
19542
£75
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BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman)
Autograph Letter in the third person to W. Sandford,
returning "his papers on Rhodes, which he has read with considerable interest", 1 side 8vo., Rochdale, 11th November
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
18824
£15
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BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman and Orator
Fine signature, November 12th,
Item Date:
1868
Stock No:
11416
£10
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[BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman and Orator)]
Copy in another hand of his verses
"written in Visitors book at Drumnadrocket Inn, Glen Urquhart", saying that commonly "In Highland Glens ... man is chased away and game preserved", but that in "lovelier" Glen Urquhart, "deer and grouse have not supplanted men / Nor thousands here a wretched life course run / To buy a splendid luxury for one / Midst stifling walls and sweltering alleys thrust", and ending "Here Mules & Shoddy have not stunted men", 12 lines, 1 side folio, no date, c.
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
51198
£29
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BRIGHT
(John, 1811-1889, Radical Statesman and Orator)
Engaging autograph letter signed to the Revd Samuel Clarkson,
of Broughton, Manchester, thanking him for "the kindness which dictated the lines" accompanying "your note", unfortunately he is "in no way worthy of the compliments of Poets ... effusions of this nature" in the newspapers "make me blush", he cannot come up to "your standard of duty" and has "a nervous apprehension" about "the ordinary labour of Parl[iamentar]y life -- A few weeks will show", ending "In future, I must urge you to take a better subject when the poetic fit is on", 4 sides 16mo, Rochdale, 26th January
traces of former guard
Item Date:
1858
Stock No:
52905
£65
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