IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL17
Held at: Senate House Library, University of London
Title: Cartwright, Edmund: letter (1828)
Date(s): 1828
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 2 leaves
Name of creator(s): Cartwright | Edmund | 1773-1833 | clergyman and son of Edmund Cartwright senior
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Cartwright was the son of the Rev Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823), inventor of a power loom, and his first wife Alice (d 1758). He was the author of Parochial Topography of the Rape of Bramber (1830). His three sisters, Mary Strickland, Elizabeth Penrose and Frances Dorothy Cartwright, were also published writers.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Letter from Edmund Cartwright of Lyminster, Arundel, [Sussex] to [the Editor of the Edinburgh Review], 29 Jan 1828. Describing the services rendered by his late father in the invention of the power loom and the inadequacy of the Government grant of £10,000, which 'did not repay one fifth part of loss which his family sustained, and which, as his only son, has continually fallen on me'. With the letter are 7 printed verses which Cartwright senior had desired 'might be engraven on his tomb'. Autograph, with signature.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
See hard copy catalogue.
Conditions governing access:
Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the Library's Palaeography Room. Please contact the University Archivist for details. 24 hours notice is required for research visits.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies may be made, subject to the condition of the original. Copying must be undertaken by the Palaeography Room staff, who will need a minimum of 24 hours to process requests.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Catalogue of the manuscripts and autograph letters in the University Library at the central building of the University of London (1921). A copy is available in the Library's Palaeography Room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
See archivist
Immediate source of acquisition:
Bought from Tregaskis in 1912 (about 2 months after Ludlow's books were sold at Hodgson's).
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
On negative microfilm - reference: MIC 242/2.
Related material:
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: July 2008