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Roberts, Samuel: letter (1833)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0096 AL307

Held at: Senate House Library, University of London

Title: Roberts, Samuel: letter (1833)

Date(s): 1833

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 leaves (only 1 in MS)

Name of creator(s): Roberts | Samuel | 1763-1848 | writer on social issues

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Samuel Roberts was born in Sheffield in 1763. He began work in his family's silverware factory aged 14. From the age of 27 he wrote extensively on social issues such as poverty, gambling and crime, initially in local newspapers and later also in pamphlets and books. He always considered writing secondary to his successful business career and through choice never made a profit from it. His opposition to slavery and child labour brought him into contact with Willliam Wilberforce, who became a close friend.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letter from Samuel Roberts of Park Grange, [Sheffield, Yorkshire] to George Thompson, c/o Alexander Cruickshanks, Meadowside, Edinburgh, 26 Oct 1833. Covering note to a copy of Roberts's An address to the members of the two Wilberforce-Committees, London and York, concerning a suitable memorial to the late William Wilberforce, slavery abolitionist. Autograph, with signature. This note is written on a blank portion at the end of the third page of the printed pamphlet. The date stamp, frank, seal and address are on the fourth (back) page.

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:

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Palaeography Room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

See archivist

Immediate source of acquisition:

Written on the blank portion of Roberts's An address to the members of the two Wilberforce-Committees, London and York (1833) - classmark: [G.L.] Case II.8.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

A typed transcript is filed with the original letter.

Related material:

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Abolition of slavery | Social reform | Social policy
Memorials | Decorative features | Building components
Pamphlets | Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences

Personal names
Roberts | Samuel | 1763-1848 | writer on social issues
Wilberforce | William | 1759-1833 | politician, philanthropist, and slavery abolitionist

Corporate names

Places
Barnet | Hertfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
York | Ainsty and City of York | Yorkshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London