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GB 0096 AL467 · Fonds · 1852

Letter from Herbert Spencer of 340 Strand, [London] to Robert Chambers, 31 May 1852. Covering note enclosing a copy of Spencer's pamphlet A theory of population (1852).

Autograph, with signature. The front wrapper of the pamphlet is inscribed to Chambers.

Spencer , Herbert , 1820-1903 , philosopher
GB 0096 AL468 · Fonds · 1874

Letter from Herbert Spencer of 38 Queen's Gardens, Bayswater, London to an unknown recipient, 28 Apr 1874. Written on the blank page of a lithographed letter giving reasons why Spencer 'must take measures for diminishing the amount of his correspondence', etc.

Written in another hand and signed by Spencer.

Spencer , Herbert , 1820-1903 , philosopher
GB 0096 AL112 · Fonds · 1878

Letter from Herbert Spencer of the Bristol Hotel, Brighton to Mr Williams, 25 Jan 1878. 'I did not ask for the Second Edition of [Henry] Sidgwick's Ethics. I asked for the additions and alterations ... printed separately ... As for the book itself I do not want it. I do not regard it worth the paper it is printed upon.'

Autograph, with signature. Annotated in a different hand [?by an assistant of Williams] on the dorse of the first leaf.

Spencer , Herbert , 1820-1903 , philosopher