The collection consists of miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes, 1938, on news pamphlets during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Collins , Douglas Cecil , fl 1938 , student at the University of LondonLetter from Sir James Robert George Graham of Grosvenor Place, [London] to an unidentified recipient, 18 Mar 1839. 'The [Morning] Chronicle now reports much better than the other morning papers; but none of them are able to report, as you can. I am greatly obliged by your anxiety to give a good report of my speech on the Corn Laws [delivered in the House of Commons, 14 Mar 1839] ... Not one word was committed to paper beforehand, except the concluding passage which I send in confidence for your use, begging you will destroy it when you have used it ...'.
Autograph, with signature. Marked: 'Private'.
Graham , Sir , James Robert George , 1792-1861 , 2nd Baronet , politicianCopy of the newspaper, The Post Boy. Includes letter to Lady Rokeby of Northallerton, Yorkshire.
Beardwell , B , fl 1700 , newspaper publisherLetter from Thomas Perronet Thompson of Blackheath, [Kent] to George Pryme, Esq of Wiston, near Huntingdon, 19 Mar 1848. 'For the first time I appear to have got under the fallacy about a paper circulation based on all the land in the country. I just now perceive this included in the latest manifesto of Robert Owen.'
Autograph, with signature.
Thompson , Thomas Perronet , 1783-1869 , army officer and politician