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The Rev. C. W. Lawrence was vicar of St. Luke's, Liverpool, and father of William Frederic Lawrence, M.P.
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MARIA EDGEWORTH (1767-1849)
A COLLECTION OF 5 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS to the Reverend C. W. L. or Mrs Lawrence (two incomplete), comprising: An incomplete 2-page letter, without signature, from Edgeworthstown, July 19th 1831, informing Mr. Lawrence that she has arrived home safely and continuing: "Mr. Edgeworth confirms the account I gave you of the plenty which has existed in our country and which has overflowed to other parts ... In plain English, Mr. Edgeworth ... having heard of the famine in Mayo and seeing the plenty in the County of Longford took an opportunity of a dinner which my brother gave his tenants after the last election, and asked the principle tenants whether they would send their meal to Mayo to the starving people and at what price they could afford -- this was 13 shillings exclusive of carrage per ton -- the carriage cost 3 pounds per ton -- at this price six ton were carried by our tenants and paid for punctually and thankfully by a clergyman in Mayo from subscription money which had been placed at his disposal for the distressed poor -- Potatoes could not be sent because of such bulky carriage (crudely bound with 2 other letters, one incomplete). A further 3-page letter, signed, from Edgeworthstown, April 16th, 1832, to Mr. Lawrence, requests pens and betrays anxiety over recent political disturbances: "I am now going to be a beggar woman -- I am going to beg from you a present of a dozen more of the iron pens which you and Mrs. Lawrence gave me to stick into my ivory handled pen ... I am sorry to tell you that in our immediate neighbourhood disturbances are now beginning -- the people have almost all declared against paying tithe ... as long as laws exist those who govern the country should take means to have them supported -- and not tell the people that tithes are 'extinguished' while they are still the only lawful provision for the clergy -- that single word 'extinguished' has done incalculable mischief in Ireland -- much in the same way in which the telling the slaves in Jamaica that they were free raised a rebellion." She suggests he reads: "Dumont's Memoires of Mirabeau -- admirable and so applicable to our own times. He was my particular friend -- Dumont I mean not Mirabeau," with a wax seal, stamped: "Maria" (torn at seal with slight loss to text). A final 2-page autograph letter, signed, from Edgeworthstown, July 18th, 1835, to Lawrence asks his advice about selling railway shares (some adhesive marks not affecting text). (5)
A COLLECTION OF 5 MANUSCRIPT LETTERS to the Reverend C. W. L. or Mrs Lawrence (two incomplete), comprising: An incomplete 2-page letter, without signature, from Edgeworthstown, July 19th 1831, informing Mr. Lawrence that she has arrived home safely and continuing: "Mr. Edgeworth confirms the account I gave you of the plenty which has existed in our country and which has overflowed to other parts ... In plain English, Mr. Edgeworth ... having heard of the famine in Mayo and seeing the plenty in the County of Longford took an opportunity of a dinner which my brother gave his tenants after the last election, and asked the principle tenants whether they would send their meal to Mayo to the starving people and at what price they could afford -- this was 13 shillings exclusive of carrage per ton -- the carriage cost 3 pounds per ton -- at this price six ton were carried by our tenants and paid for punctually and thankfully by a clergyman in Mayo from subscription money which had been placed at his disposal for the distressed poor -- Potatoes could not be sent because of such bulky carriage (crudely bound with 2 other letters, one incomplete). A further 3-page letter, signed, from Edgeworthstown, April 16th, 1832, to Mr. Lawrence, requests pens and betrays anxiety over recent political disturbances: "I am now going to be a beggar woman -- I am going to beg from you a present of a dozen more of the iron pens which you and Mrs. Lawrence gave me to stick into my ivory handled pen ... I am sorry to tell you that in our immediate neighbourhood disturbances are now beginning -- the people have almost all declared against paying tithe ... as long as laws exist those who govern the country should take means to have them supported -- and not tell the people that tithes are 'extinguished' while they are still the only lawful provision for the clergy -- that single word 'extinguished' has done incalculable mischief in Ireland -- much in the same way in which the telling the slaves in Jamaica that they were free raised a rebellion." She suggests he reads: "Dumont's Memoires of Mirabeau -- admirable and so applicable to our own times. He was my particular friend -- Dumont I mean not Mirabeau," with a wax seal, stamped: "Maria" (torn at seal with slight loss to text). A final 2-page autograph letter, signed, from Edgeworthstown, July 18th, 1835, to Lawrence asks his advice about selling railway shares (some adhesive marks not affecting text). (5)