Autographed Letter Signed Shaftesbury

by Lord - Anthony Ashley-Cooper Shaftesbury

$250 · Offered by Argosy Book Store · No longer available

Torquay: 1860. 4 pages on personal letterhead, 7.25 x 4.25, Torquay, December 17, 1860. In this letter, Shaftesbury discusses the political impact of farmers, in part: ...if the Farmer is very great and the influence of his example still greater, and he is constantly on the spot, he can, and he does, centralize the efforts & counteract the wishes of the landed Proprietors... Very good condition. 7th Earl of Shaftesbury and labor reformer

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