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Autographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Scope Note: Resources consisting of or containing autographs (names of persons written in their own hand) or reproductions of autographs.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Autograph, 1835

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 31197233283198], Folder: 11-12
Identifier: Vault MSS 2
Scope and Contents

Autograph clipped from a letter. A piece of paper is glued to the item. It states, "Peter Borthwick Esqre. of Claverton Park, in Somersetshire was defeated in 1832, by Sir Charles Cockerell and Thomas Hudson Esq. but returned in 1835, without a contest. The hon. gentleman, who was born in Midlothian (?), in 1804, is hostile to the Whig ministry, and had distinguished himself by his advocacy of a gradual Slave Emancipation."

Dates: 1835